Anticipated Problems in Digital Education
Does technology make people dumb?
As Katherine Hayles argued, by citing the research of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), there is the correlation between decreased literary reading and poorer reading ability. And decreased print reading is intimately related to the use of technology (Hayles, 2010).
Relevant reading: Mark Bauerlein's offensively titled The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans (2009)
The Opposite Results?
- The Flynn Effect might be able to be explained by the increased use of technology in the 20th century. The Flynn Effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts of the world over the 20th century (Baker et al., 2015).
- VR education can contribute 101% percent increase in the learning effectiveness. Here, we talked about it.
Conclusion
As I already discussed in the section on Interdisciplinary Education, both linear reading and hypperreading are important.
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References
Baker, David P.; Eslinger, Paul J.; Benavides, Martin; Peters, Ellen; Dieckmann, Nathan F.; Leon, Juan. "The cognitive impact of the education revolution: A possible cause of the Flynn Effect on population IQ". Intelligence. 49: 144–58, 2015.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289615000082?via%3Dihub
Buerlein, Mark. The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans. TarcherPerigee, 2009.
Hayles, Katherine. "How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine" in ADE Bulletin, 2010.
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