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Sherry Turkle, “How Computers Change the Way We Think”

This article suffers from many of the classic flaws in discriminatory and invalidating thinking about computers/the computing generation that I’ve explored in other annotations, but I think some of them are successfully answered by Gardner & Davis and others. Turkle … Continue reading

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The Brain Technology Built: An Interview with Dr. Gary Small

Originally posted on N E U R O N A R R A T I V E:
“If you think our incessant use of the Internet, Blackberrys, iPods, text-messaging and video games has changed our lives and our children’s lives,…

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Marc Prensky, “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants,” or, getting my “digital natives” rant out of the way now.

This article makes an appeal to educators to accept that the students they teach are different from those of the past, mainly because of the introduction of computer technology into the everyday lives of those students at an early age. … Continue reading

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