Today is the last day of our course on Blended Learning at NILE. We have started talking about 

1. Clifford Nass (He talked about the change in communication/connects- growth in media use- stealing time from other media TV replace radio, net replace TV etc. ın 1990 the increase in media use created the multitask. Exp: every Stanford student uses 3 media at one time. Rectangle Experiment: "

"Nass and his colleagues, Eyal Ophir and Anthony Wagner, set out to learn what gives multitaskers their edge. What is their gift?

• “We kept looking for what they’re better at, and we didn’t find it,” said Ophir, the study’s lead author and a researcher in Stanford’s Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab.

In each of their tests, the researchers split their subjects into two groups: those who regularly do a lot of media multitasking and those who don’t.

In one experiment, the groups were shown sets of two red rectangles alone or surrounded by two, four or six blue rectangles. Each configuration was flashed twice, and the participants had to determine whether the two red rectangles in the second frame were in a different position than in the first frame.

They were told to ignore the blue rectangles, and the low multitaskers had no problem doing that. But the high multitaskers were constantly distracted by the irrelevant blue images. Their performance was horrible.

Because the high multitaskers showed they couldn’t ignore things, the researchers figured they were better at storing and organizing information. Maybe they had better memories.

The second test proved that theory wrong. After being shown sequences of alphabetical letters, the high multitaskers did a lousy job at remembering when a letter was making a repeat appearance.

“The low multitaskers did great,” Ophir said. “The high multitaskers were doing worse and worse the further they went along because they kept seeing more letters and had difficulty keeping them sorted in their brains.” Source "

1. Nicolas Carr , The writer of the Shallows.  What we are losing is to pay deep attention for a long time. We are losing our focus. 
2. Sugata Mitra,  Self-Organised Learning. Here are some articles of Sugata Mitra:

• Article 1
• Article 2
• Article 3
• Article 4
• Article 5

1. Stephen Hepell, 
2. Cathy Davidson (minds jump- brain naturally zooms off all the time.)
3. Sherry Turkle, 
4. Ken Wilson. 

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