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11 Oct 08

Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind

The author is trying to point out that reading the quick paced information on the internet is pushing away our (youth's) ability to perform "slow reading". Some interesting points but i don't agree with his automatic assumption (for which no arguments are provided) that reading dense texts is superior to reading newer forms of representing information (hypertext).

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  • "After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none."
    • maybe this also depends on how you measure student achievement. changing the tools with which you conceptualize the world is bound to change the meaning of what we regard as achievements. - on 2008-10-11
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  • That's the drift of screen reading. Yes, it's a kind of literacy, but it breaks down in the face of a dense argument, a Modernist poem, a long political tract, and other texts that require steady focus and linear attention — in a word, slow reading. Fast scanning doesn't foster flexible minds that can adapt to all kinds of texts, and it doesn't translate into academic reading.
    • Although i would also regret the decline of slow reading, i think this picture is not complete without making a distinction here between the different tools/media that generate "texts".

      Maybe these new tools (computers, internet, ...) are not the best media for the dense texts generated by the "older" media. There are ways of representing information that more easily allow for "fast-scanning" (mind-mapping sofware like compendium and freemind), in fact pushing the hypertext idea to the extreme.

      Because the internet today is imho still not using the original hypertext idea to its full potential (see Engelbart's "Augmenting Human Intellect). Basically, it's just old media (webPAGEs) linked together. See Lev Manovich for an interesting discussion on what we today call "new media" (The Language of New Media).       - on 2008-10-11
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19 Aug 08

Debategraph home

"our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all"

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10 May 08

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

This article describes a new learning theory, connectivism, that's more adapted to the needs of our digital age.

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  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network,
    and complexity and self-organization theories. Learning is a process that
    occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements –
    not entirely under the control of the individual. Learning (defined as
    actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization
    or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets,
    and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than
    our current state of knowing
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