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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Technology and the mind

Livia Lenhoff
Photo by Leo Reynolds

Technology and the mind

Livia Lenhoff
Photo by Leo Reynolds

"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." 
Photo by Doha Sam

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

Focus on Instant Gratification

(Muther, 2013)

Abandonment rates of 6.7 million internet users

Instant Gratification leading to stagnation

(Anderson and Rainie, 2012)
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On the contrary...

  • Moral panic theory
  • Failed Research
  • "The Gutenberg Parenthesis"
  • Evolutionary Advantage
  • Seeing and Thinking 

Technology and Learning

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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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Physical vs. Virtual

(Clegg, 2008)
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Lotus Lingrad

(Kluger, 2008)

Babies could only differentiate the sounds

If they were spoken by a live teacher.

Time and relativity

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)

Creativity

(Arthur, 2009) (Anderson and Rainie, 2012)
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Document five

  • More time to concentrate on innovation
  • Books are being used as a "new form"
  • 'never-ending novelty'
  • Original teaching techniques

Creativity and technology

in third world countries
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(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

Writing Extinction

Not likely...

But expressions

are in jeopardy
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