Blogs & Wikis

Kelton, AJ, "The Young and the Digital", AJ's PhD Blog, January 18, 2010, <http://drajphd.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/the-young-and-the-digital/>, Accessed January 18, 2010

annotated summary of ...

Watkins, S. C. (2009). The Young & The Digital: What the Migration to Social-Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future. Boston, MA: Beacon Press

among other things discusses effect of technology in classroom ... "There are two kinds of technology in today's classroom: technologies that pull students away from the classroom, and technologies that pull students into the classroom." (p180) ... "boundaries between traditional leisure spaces (think home or the cinema) and nonleisure places (think work or school) are erased ... any place can be a leisure space" (p190)

Saffro, Paul, "A Third Kind of Knowledge", World Question Center, How has the Internet Changed the Way You Think?, 2010, <http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_7.html#pagel>, Accessed January 22, 2010

Internet causing people to waste time interactively ... "mouse potatoes" ... need to learn how to know what's important, and discipline ourselves to seek out things that matter

Standage, Tom, "The distractions of social media, 1673 style", tomstandage.com, June 12, 2012, <https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/the-distractions-of-social-media-1673-style/>, Accessed August 9, 2012

extract from his upcoming book "Cicero's Web" on the prehistory of social media ... this section looks at what was considered 'social media' in the 1600s and how it affected productivity

Suderman, Peter, "Your Brain is an Index", The American Scene: An Ongoing Review of Politics and Culture, October 5, 2009, <http://www.theamericanscene.com/2009/05/11/your-brain-is-an-index>, Accessed January 20, 2010

rather than memorizing information, we store it digitally and remember what we stored ... David Brooks' outsourced brain

Sylwester, Robert, "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, and Digital Wisdom", Brain Connection, June 2009, <http://brainconnection.positscience.com/content/313_1>, Accessed January 13, 2010

five specific criteria present in Internet Addictive Disorder ... (i) preoccupation, (ii) tolerance, (iii) lack of control, (iv) withdrawal, (v) staying online ... plus at least one of the following (i) risk of functional impairment, (ii) concealment, (iii) escape

Tobii Technology, "School Daze: Eye-Tracking Study Reveals What Earns Student Attention in Classroom", Business Wire, July 17, 2012, <http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120717005219/en/School-Daze-Eye-Tracking-Study-Reveals-Earns-Student>, Accessed August 7, 2012

student attention in a classroom does not appear to be linear (and fall off after 10 - 15 minutes) but is impacted by the following factors throughout a lecture ... (i) "verbal presentation of new material that is not contained within the instructor's PowerPoint", (ii) the use of humour by the instructor, and (iii) proximity of the instructor to the student ... also "digital distractions ... are greatest inhibitors to retaining students' attention in the classroom" ... full study to be published by David Rosengrant, Kennesaw State University in Fall 2012