Which of course brings up this article that's gotten so much play in the last few days.Originally Posted by Pax
It forces our minds to think differently than images do, different is good.
I'd always been skeptical of Leonard Shlain's scholarship in The Alphabet vs. the Goddess - as appealing to me as many of his ideas are - but this latest research kind of reinforces it in a sideways fashion.
My attention isn't what it used to be, but I'd attributed that to other things. To reference the other thread ... might be a good reason to go back to reading on the Kindle and not having all the distractions quite so close to hand ...
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That's a really fascinating article.
I've been doing a lot of testing this year on the computer, it's the direction high stakes testing is going. But a few of the tests the students did paper pencil in class first. Their paper pencil grades were almost always better than those on the computer.
The testing the students have to do is crazy. Fifth graders - 10 and 11 year olds - watch a video on a topic and take notes on the computer, read two articles on the computer about the same topic and then compose an essay. The practice tests are available here. Check out the ELA performance test. It's ridiculous!
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