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Jeanelle Driver's List: 2.4 Team B References
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Jun 12, 13
The persistence of TV sound and rapidly-changing images can condition a child to expect that level of stimulation in other circumstances, notably school. But there, a child will be called upon to speak, to listen to a teacher, work some problems, or read, none of which contain the attention-grabbing effect of TV’s dual stimuli. (limitv, n.d.).
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TV conditions a child to dual stimuli: sound and images.
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The persistence of TV sound and rapidly-changing images can condition a child to expect that level of stimulation in other circumstances, notably school. But there, a child will be called upon to speak, to listen to a teacher, work some problems, or read, non
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Jun 13, 13
Common Sense- A best seller. Sold copies more quickly, and at a higher volume than any modern book. Published in 1776, it is infinitely more complex than anything on the market currently.
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Fifteen million copies today! More surprisingly, Common Sense by Thomas Paine sold this equivalent in just three months. In its first year, it sold 500,000 copies, or 20% of the colonial population.
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Jun 13, 13
"It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy." (Ramono, 2005)
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Jun 12, 13
According to Department of Education data cited in the report, just over a fifth of 17-year-olds said they read almost every day for fun in 2004, down from nearly a third in 1984. Nineteen percent of 17-year-olds said they never or hardly ever read for fun in 2004, up from 9 percent in 1984. Mokoto, 2008
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As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.
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At least since the invention of television, critics have warned that electronic media would destroy reading. What is different now, some literacy experts say, is that spending time on the Web, whether it is looking up something on Google or even britneyspears.org, entails some engagement with text.
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Jun 14, 13
Texting has been used in place of speech to mediate conflicts, stay in touch with family members and friends, and increase intimacy in all types of relationships. Teenagers and adolescents commonly use "small talk" in text messages to communicate about issues of little importance to them. This, however, is a way to deviate from talking about issues adults would deem more "socially relevant" and creates tension between the values of the two age groups. (Staroviot, n.d.).
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Jun 13, 13
The Internet badly needs some form of regulation to improve the quality of online material, and this needs to be implemented swiftly before more damage can be done to our reading skills, especially those of our impressionable young. (Timou, 2009)
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Jun 14, 13
texting affects social standards is that the texting “language” can become permanently stored within our brains, and cause us to write the way we text. (Turake, 2012).
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Jun 14, 13
As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles (Wolpert, 2009).
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