http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Asia has the largest users of the Internet in terms of number of people who uses it(3,808,070,503); but in terms of ratio of internet users to the population it is only 18.5%, lowest to Africa who's number is 6.7 %. Its interesting to note that North America who has a significantly smaller amount of people (340,831,831), the Internet has been taken to up to 73.9% of the people. It has the largest ratio of people who uses the internet. Being a person who lives in North America, the numbers are not surprising since Internet usage as it is integral and widespread in people's daily lives, but in comparison to some other countries it is very heavy on the Internet usage.
It seems as if countries that are considered "developed" like North America have the highest usage. While places that are considered less developed like Africa, has the lowest internet usage. In Asia, considered a developing country, their usage of the internet has increased by 516.1 %. It seems like the more technological, and "developed" a country becomes, the more they increase their use the internet. The longer they have been "developed" the more utilized the Internet becomes as well.
How does text affect student's grammar?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080120212338AARFQi0
I think when students text alot we can get used to using text lingo. Oftentimes we use shorthand and lose grammar and punctuation in favor of brevity. Words like "what" become "wat" and "you" becomes "u" and there's also chat lingo like "ttyl" (talk to you later) or "cya" (see ya). But how does that affect student's writing skills? Does it have any affect?
I caught myself writing "wat" instead of "what" a few times when I was writing an essay or taking notes and it seems likely that it has happened to other people as well. Its convenient and used often enough that you slip and one girl on yahoo messenger answers attested to doing the same. I think because of this students can get lazy with grammar or punctuation. There's also something called spell check to fix it for them if they're writing an essay and it makes it easy to get lax on paying attention to things like that.
Moehizzy: "i was typing in chat lingo as its known on my college essays. the transition of typing is hard. i have to go thru spell check so many times and sometimes i still overlook it."
I think once you realize it or catch it, you can correct it, but you have to get used to it.
How does TV affect the developing brain?
http://www.brainy-child.com/article/tvonbrain.html
The article basically correlates short attention span and attention deficit disorder with high levels of television viewing. It says at an early age babies should be doing more hands on things like exploring the three dimensional world and learning about social relationships rather than watching TV. This is because some of the features of children’s programming like “rapid zooms and pans, flashes of color, quick movement in the peripheral visual field, sudden loud noises” that are intended to grab the views attention were modeled after advertising research, which determined that this technique was the best way to engage the brain's attention involuntarily. According to the article, “Such experiences deprive the child of practice in using his own brain independently, as in games, hobbies, social interaction, or just "fussing around." A young brain manipulated by jazzy visual effects cannot divide attention to listen carefully to language. Moreover, the "two-minute mind" easily becomes impatient with any material requiring depth of processing.”
That’s interesting since it seems like kids today have a shorter attention span and this might be a contributing factor for it.
"I have talked to many parents of children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder who found the difficulty markedly improved after they took away television viewing privileges." (Healy)
Is that a coincidence? I think there should be studies on this.
update: there are studies http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_story.asp?slug=ADHD%20Toddlers
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-04-05-tv-bottomstrip_x.htm
I think when students text alot we can get used to using text lingo. Oftentimes we use shorthand and lose grammar and punctuation in favor of brevity. Words like "what" become "wat" and "you" becomes "u" and there's also chat lingo like "ttyl" (talk to you later) or "cya" (see ya). But how does that affect student's writing skills? Does it have any affect?
I caught myself writing "wat" instead of "what" a few times when I was writing an essay or taking notes and it seems likely that it has happened to other people as well. Its convenient and used often enough that you slip and one girl on yahoo messenger answers attested to doing the same. I think because of this students can get lazy with grammar or punctuation. There's also something called spell check to fix it for them if they're writing an essay and it makes it easy to get lax on paying attention to things like that.
Moehizzy: "i was typing in chat lingo as its known on my college essays. the transition of typing is hard. i have to go thru spell check so many times and sometimes i still overlook it."
I think once you realize it or catch it, you can correct it, but you have to get used to it.
How does TV affect the developing brain?
http://www.brainy-child.com/article/tvonbrain.html
The article basically correlates short attention span and attention deficit disorder with high levels of television viewing. It says at an early age babies should be doing more hands on things like exploring the three dimensional world and learning about social relationships rather than watching TV. This is because some of the features of children’s programming like “rapid zooms and pans, flashes of color, quick movement in the peripheral visual field, sudden loud noises” that are intended to grab the views attention were modeled after advertising research, which determined that this technique was the best way to engage the brain's attention involuntarily. According to the article, “Such experiences deprive the child of practice in using his own brain independently, as in games, hobbies, social interaction, or just "fussing around." A young brain manipulated by jazzy visual effects cannot divide attention to listen carefully to language. Moreover, the "two-minute mind" easily becomes impatient with any material requiring depth of processing.”
That’s interesting since it seems like kids today have a shorter attention span and this might be a contributing factor for it.
"I have talked to many parents of children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder who found the difficulty markedly improved after they took away television viewing privileges." (Healy)
Is that a coincidence? I think there should be studies on this.
update: there are studies http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_story.asp?slug=ADHD%20Toddlers
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-04-05-tv-bottomstrip_x.htm
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