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on 2009-03-25 by nashworld

Yeah... because it is about the tool... not the instructional goal in mind.

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Reading for pleasure, which has declined among young people in recent decades, enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media such as video games and television do not, Greenfield said

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Schools should make more effort to test students using visual media, she said, by asking them to prepare PowerPoint presentations, for example.

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on 2009-03-25 by terri_science

Really, PowerPoint? I'm not sure if I agree that that is the best way to assess using visual media. It isn't interactive.

"No one medium is good for everything," Greenfield said. "If we want to develop a variety of skills, we need a balanced media diet. Each medium has costs and benefits in terms of what skills each develops."

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Schools should make more effort to test students using visual media, she said, by asking them to prepare PowerPoint presentations, for example.
 
"As students spend more time with visual media and less time with print, evaluation methods that include visual media will give a better picture of what they actually know,"

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most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination

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on 2009-03-25 by terri_science

So, this research is not describing technology that is collaborative in nature. I wonder if the data would be different if web 2.0 tools were taken into account.

"By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination —

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Parents should encourage their children to read and should read to their young children, she said.

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on 2009-03-25 by terri_science

Agreed! Definitely should read more!

Visual intelligence has been rising globally for 50 years

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Raven's Progressive Matrices, went steadily down with age and declined substantially from age 25 to 65.

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In a 1992 study, visual IQ stayed almost flat from age 25 to 65,

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