Technology and Academic Integrity - Lecture #7 Flashcards
Double-Edged Nature of Tech in Learning
Technology as learning aid and surveillance
Technology as learning aid
Increasing accessibility for remote learners
Benefits students with learning differences from non-verbal interface.
Technology as surveillance
Using technology to monitor who’s going to a lecture, which students get lunch or calculate intake.
Power is related to how surveillance allows for no control
How surveillance is connected to power
Why is cursive being brought back?
Work on fine motor skills and processing speeds. Printing is slow
Technology and Task Switching
Brains have been primed to think we can do multiple things all at the same time.
What’s the problem with Task Switching?
Task-switching cannot exist if you’re switching back from one thing to another and not necessarily doing it at the same time.
Brains are not made for task switching because?
Exhausting from switching back and forth, and it has negative effects on our brain density. The number of neurons that fire will reduce
Neuroplasticity
The brain’s neural networks evolve and change through growth and reorganization.
What did Stanford say about the dangers of high-tech juggling?
People don’t pay attention, can’t control memory or switch from one to job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time.
The Need to Manage Digital Distractions in The Classroom
Multitasking reduces ability to comprehend lecture content.
Smartphones offer little to no value
Other students can’t focus if you’re a laptop multitasker
Setting up an environment to ensure success and putting away devices and being able to do one task at a time
Managing Digital Distractions
Who are the Senate?
One of the governing bodies related to the academic mission of the university. Delivers school quality eduction for students
How is Academic Integrity governed by the senate?
If caught for academic integrity, and the seriousness is high it can go to the senate whom can decide possible expulsion.
Consequences of Breeching Integrity
Wakefield conducted research on autism in an irresponsible and dishonest way. He would make children his test subjects and inject them with vaccines in an attempt to prove autism was formed from the vaccines. Unethical conduct.
