Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
If you’ve ever slowed down long enough to wonder about the effect of our increasing immersion in the world of social media and digital technology, Michael Wesch is the person to ask. 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, he wanted to make a closed network for the elite at Harvard. Over time, he realized that by opening it up, he would be able to build something that cataloged the college experience for everyone. Today the majority of college students use social media. Look at the statistics and you decide if the experience of college students is "enhanced or hampered by social media."
|
Scoop.it!
"...well-run organizations employ technology as a way to improve their performance...Far too often, school leaders fail to consider how technology might dramatically improve teaching and learning, and schools frequently acquire digital devices without discrete learning goals and ultimately use these devices in ways that fail to adequately serve students, schools, or taxpayers."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This report, published by the Center for American Progress, looks "at the issue of how students used technology and the return that educators were getting on their technology investment." The data comes from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, also known as the National Report Card, and is considered "one of the richest sources of national student survey data" A few of the findings are listed below as are the sections included in the article. By clicking through you will find additional information on each of the findings and much more. You may also download the report as a pdf. * Students often use technology for basic skills. * Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to have access to more rigorous STEM-learning opportunities. Additional sections include: technology's potential, technology's tough questions, the growing digital divide, fulfilling the promise, recommendations and conclusions.
Scoop.it!
"Do text messages lend themselves to lies and deception? According to a recent study, people feel more deceived when they are communicating via text versus other forms of communication. And they might be right. These days, students are using cell phones to cheat on their tests and celebrities are using cell phones to cheat on their spouses. Is this onslaught of cheating and deception a result of digital technology? Find out more about cell phones and lies in the below infographic."
Damian Knight's curator insight,
October 1, 2014 11:03 AM
I remember in public school I'd just cheat on tests by writing answers on my shoe or having my book open partway across the room (My eyesight was better then) fact of the matter is that this is nothing new. Kids who want to cheat on tests will cheat on tests somehow. Way I see it, if you're skilled enough to con your way through life, then have a ball! |
The comment I like best in this interview is the final part of this interview. He states:
"We live in an age of almost infinite information and learning opportunity and so the key here is we have to inspire people to have a sense of wonder and curiosity and if we do that, they have what is essentially the world’s largest knowledge machine at their fingertips. If we fail at that they have the world’s largest distraction device."
The question we may want to ask ourselves is how do move our students to have the "sense of wonder and curiuosity"?