Some interesting thoughts in an article titled “Social Media’s Effect on Learning” over on a WSJ Blog.
Some snippets:
“Bilingual people aren’t cognitively smarter, but they are more cognitively flexible,”
“Practice at constant switching improves an aspect of their cognitive abilities.”
“This is much like what people do when they’re updating their Twitter status, instant-messaging friends, or answering text messages and emails while they’re doing something else. Dr. Kuhl said this multitasking, where people are stimulating new patterns of sequential processing, could then reap the same benefits as bilingualism.”
“If not .. then networking online is at least acting as a brain innovator.., promoting new paths of discovery and interactivity in the brain.”
Read full story.
On of my ‘Network‘ friends, Nancy White, from Full Circle Associates in the States, has been out here in Australia doing some presentations. Here’s a snippet where my ‘We‘ friend Mike Seyfang and I get a shout-out in her Keynote at the Learning Technologies 2009 Conference held this week in Qld.
It makes me think a lot about what I said regarding Social Isolation over on my Lifekludger blog recently.
[audio:http://media.dnwallace.com/mp3/Snippet-Keynote_MeWeandtheNetwork.mp3]
Shout-out by Nancy White
Nancy White
Keynote: Me, We and the Network
Learning Technologies 2009 Conference
The power of you – or of me, is mighty. But when and how do we tap into the power of “we” – bounded groups, or networks which flow beyond our personal lines of sight. What practices enable us to utilise the power across these three forms?
Learning Technologies 2009 Conference Podcasts from both days available now at http://bit.ly/2zq7yv
