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Are we becoming Internet addicts? : Comments
By Mal Fletcher, published 11/1/2013Addiction may seem too strong a word to apply to our engagement with mobile media. Yet the description is apt.
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Posted by WmTrevor, Monday, 14 January 2013 8:15:15 AM
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Mal Fletcher asks "Are we becoming Internet addicts?" (11 January 2013). I have been using the Internet almost every day since 1994, so I guess that makes me an addict: http://www.tomw.net.au/nt ;-)
The suggestion that university students studies are suffering because they are less able to follow lectures seems to miss the point. Universities now use more interactive and on-line teaching methods, not because the students ability to concentrate has decline, but because conventional lectures were never a good teaching method. Conventional wisdom was that a student took in about 15 minutes of an hour long lecture. The lectures were an hour long simply for logistical reasons. So now live lecture are made more interactive, with discussion and exercises, or replaced with shorted recorded material on-line and with interactive exercises. An example is my ICT Sustainability course: http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/green_computing_professional/ Posted by tomw, Monday, 14 January 2013 11:32:30 AM
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Disclosure Statement:
I am not 'Bob'. (signed) WmTrevor. "'US software engineer outsources his job to China' (AFP) – 2 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO — "Bob" the software engineer was becoming a modern workplace legend on Thursday as word spread that he had secretly outsourced his own job to China and sat at his desk watching cat videos. The tale of Bob blazed across the Internet after being told in a Verizon security team blog post about the most "memorable" case investigators handled last year." Posted by WmTrevor, Friday, 18 January 2013 8:29:23 AM
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I take it you tanked on ChristianMingle...