tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post5495750935156944976..comments2024-03-26T23:23:06.905-07:00Comments on Blogger in Middle-earth: Scan ThisBlogger In Middle-earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post-71973772943283331712008-09-26T21:16:00.000-07:002008-09-26T21:16:00.000-07:00Tēnā koe Ken!Synthesis (and analysis) are indeed s...Tēnā koe Ken!<BR/><BR/>Synthesis (and analysis) are indeed skills associated with learning and understanding. I'm not so sure that appreciating the written word is so important to the possession of these skills, though it does seem likely that this might be the case.<BR/><BR/>One of the <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy" REL="nofollow">postmodern</A> features of where we seem to be going today is the minimalising of text, or at least the place of text, in communication and learning material - although this is probably contestable.<BR/><BR/>A leading philosopher who died in 2004, <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida" REL="nofollow">Jacques Derrida</A>, proselytised about his idea that perhaps text was now an outmoded form of communication, that face to face in the form of audio or video communication was more valid and real and that written material served as a vehicle of poor fidelity for communication - one that was misleading and ambiguous. I didn't follow Derrida.<BR/><BR/>Ka kiteBlogger In Middle-earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post-58361355739471034142008-09-26T02:36:00.000-07:002008-09-26T02:36:00.000-07:00Tēnā koutou katoa!@Virginia - you and I both. We o...Tēnā koutou katoa!<BR/><BR/>@Virginia - you and I both. We only got broadband last month. I too am aware that many of my students' families living on farms in New Zealand do not have access to fast Internet even yet.<BR/><BR/>@Ken - I wonder if it is a learnt skill, this ability to scan text more easily than other forms of communication. Many years ago I attended a speed reading course. I came away not that richer for the experience, other than I'd learnt of the wide range in abilities, to learn to scan text rapidly, among people of similar age and background.<BR/><BR/>I love your personal take on multimedia - now that's technology!<BR/><BR/>@Nancy - fair CoP :-) I hear what you say.<BR/><BR/>Ka kiteBlogger In Middle-earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post-71359689884187025122008-09-25T17:15:00.000-07:002008-09-25T17:15:00.000-07:00As a died in the wool scanner, I was nodding in re...As a died in the wool scanner, I was nodding in recognition of your observation that audio is not very scannable!Nancy Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374074594611764684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post-34325854153704763422008-09-25T09:33:00.000-07:002008-09-25T09:33:00.000-07:00I would agree with your observations, simply by re...I would agree with your observations, simply by reviewing my own consumption habits.<BR/><BR/>What I have found is audio is extremely versatile when traveling from one location to another or using it as background noise. However, when I want to reference a tidbit within the audio, I always end up having to dig up the transcript.<BR/><BR/>Past this, I am a visual learner. Seeing things in "black and white" helps me not only ingest the information but digest it.<BR/><BR/>Overall, I enjoy all multimedia, but have found I enjoy the fact I can scan text much more quickly and move on allowing for a greater consumption rate. I find my experience can be more full with multimedia, but I can also lobby for having an imagination and allowing that to be my multimedia.<BR/><BR/>I do not know the appropriate "educational" terms for this, but it appears to me we are allowing our society to move away from cognitive processing of the written word towards a lower-level of processing thus leading to simple regurgitation - not synthesis.Ken Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07253119051236940476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post-1504282943724324712008-09-24T10:43:00.000-07:002008-09-24T10:43:00.000-07:00There is one more problem: download time. Althoug...There is one more problem: download time. Although I do have high speed now, I didn't for a long time. In addition, some of my students are in rural areas without high speed access. I think you limit your readership (thus those that will "listen" to your comments) to those with high speed hook up.V Yonkershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910904367068063554noreply@blogger.com