Copy of Technology and the Mind
Published on Dec 10, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
"This is a time when the pace of technology change will be so rapid
and it's impact on human life will be irreversibly transformed."
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Key Terms
- Procedural Memory
- Sensory Enhancement
- Direct Physical
- Indirect Virtual
Document one
- Instant Gratification
- Anita Sign is unbiased but not qualified
- Therefore unreliable unless supported by research
Abandonment rates of 6.7 million internet users
On the contrary...
- Moral panic theory
- Failed Research
- "The Gutenberg Parenthesis"
- Evolutionary Advantage
- Seeing and Thinking
Document one and Michael Land
- "Just not permanent enough"
- Michael Land says nothing is permanent!
- Franzen is also an author...
- Therefore he has a vested interest and an unreliable opinion
- (Ings, 2008)
Memory
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A shift in skills
- Procedural memory will improve
- But memories will become narrower and less detailed
- Faster learning
- Fear that people will become shallow consumers of information
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Lotus Lingrad
(Kluger, 2008)
Babies could only differentiate the sounds
If they were spoken by a live teacher.
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Time and relativity
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Document two
- Time Poverty
- Time slips by when immersed in something pleasant
- Laziness as a result of labor saving technologies
- Stagnant students due to easy reproduction of information
- (Clegg, 2008)
Document five
- More time to concentrate on innovation
- Books are being used as a "new form"
- 'never-ending novelty'
- Original teaching techniques
(Van Vlaenderen, 2001)
- Empowerment leads to creativity
- Social standards met for empowerment
- Technology creates a socially empowering atmosphere
- Something these countries do not have,
- this creates creative stagnation
Exploration is a key tool to creativity
Exploration may not be supplied to it's fullest extent by technology
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Document three
- Technology allows you to find what you're looking for,
- But nothing else.
- Technology will create narrow mindedness
- or a whole new communicative environment.
- (Anderson and Rainie, 2012)
Document seven
- "Science thrives on new ideas and critical analysis"
- A global culture
- No political, time, or distance restrictions
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