http://edtags.org/ http://edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/research Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/us/26cncwarren.html Mr. Kidder noted a survey by the Opinion Research Corporation last February, as Mr. Blagojevich was sinking into the impeachment mire in Springfield, asking youths ages 12 to 17 about ethics. Eighty percent believed they were prepared to make ethical decisions when they joined the work force. Of that group, nearly half said that lying to parents or guardians was O.K., and 61 percent said they had done so in the last year. More than a third of respondents thought that “you have to break the rules at school to succeed.” katiebda Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:35:25 +0000 ethics story trust research http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Turn-Their-Attention/63746/ If single-minded attention is vital to learning, how far should college instructors go to protect their students from distraction? Should laptops be barred at the classroom door? katiebda Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:09:04 +0000 dm2 multitasking attention learning research http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/spam-emails-appeal-to-the-young-overweight/ Among students with weight problems, 42 percent reported opening spam messages offering weight loss products and nearly 19 percent ordered the product. Among normal weight students, 18 percent said they read the e-mail offers and 5 percent bought the product. katiebda Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:17:25 +0000 credibility research http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/01/fox-leads-for-trust.html Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not. A generation ago Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in the country because of his neutrality. Now people trust Fox the most precisely because of its lack of neutrality. katiebda Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:13:05 +0000 research trust news media http://chronicle.com/article/The-Millennial-Muddle-How/48772/ Kids these days. Just look at them. They've got those headphones in their ears and a gadget in every hand. They speak in tongues and text in code. They wear flip-flops everywhere. Does anyone really understand them? Only some people do, or so it seems. They are experts who have earned advanced degrees, dissected data, and published books. If the minds of college students are a maze, these specialists sell maps. Ask them to explain today's teenagers and twentysomethings. Invite them to your campus to describe this generation's traits. Just make sure that they don't all show up at the same time. They would argue, contradict one another, and leave you more baffled than ever. katiebda Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:33:52 +0000 research twenge bauerlein howe strauss millenials http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/education/20wired.html The Kaiser report is based on a survey of more than 2,000 students in grades 3 to 12 that was conducted from October 2008 to May 2009. katiebda Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:16:32 +0000 kaiser research http://www.kff.org/entmedia/mh012010pkg.cfm Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people's media use. It includes data from all three waves of the study (1999, 2004, and 2009), and is among the largest and most comprehensive publicly available sources of information about media use among American youth. katiebda Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:46:31 +0000 research kaiser http://spotlight.macfound.org/btr/entry/kids_getting_better_judging_online_content_theory/ Findings from a forthcoming study by Andrew Flanagin and Miriam Metzger: A positive sign was the indication that adults were playing a positive role in helping kids develop a healthy skepticism about online content. The survey found that 73 percent of youth have received some form of training, and the majority of parents talked to their children about whether to trust information on the web. katiebda Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:32:02 +0000 maca metzger flanagin credibility research http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=idle-minds-intelligence But now, for the first time, functional measures of the resting brain are providing new insights into network properties of the brain that are associated with IQ scores. In essence, they suggest that in smart people, distant areas of the brain communicate with each other more robustly than in less smart people. katiebda Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:11:09 +0000 intelligence dm2 creativity research http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14012942?nclick_check=1 Social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Linked-In skew younger and more female than the general population, but the increased diversity of Facebook may be another indication of the maturation of the Internet, as minorities and other groups come on board. With well over 90 percent of young adults and the college-educated population now online, "we're reaching the saturation point in the early adopting population," said Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. katiebda Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:49:04 +0000 facebook research goodplay demographics http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/is-your-facebook-personality-genuine/ The researchers expected the Facebook profiles to match an idealized version of the user’s personality. But to their surprise, the online Facebook profile matched the real-world personality test. katiebda Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:26:50 +0000 identity dm2 research t510k credibility http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01human.html Where do they get this idea of group rules, the sense of “we who do it this way”? Dr. Tomasello believes children develop what he calls “shared intentionality,” a notion of what others expect to happen and hence a sense of a group “we.” It is from this shared intentionality that children derive their sense of norms and of expecting others to obey them. katiebda Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:55:40 +0000 trust cooperation dm2 research http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2009/11/what_your_facebook_page_says_a.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogs%2Fcognitivedaily+%28Cognitive+Daily%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher The researchers found significant correlations between the behavior of the volunteers in person and online. So a Facebook page really can say a lot about what a person is like in real life--up to a point. katiebda Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:01:37 +0000 identity dm2 research http://contexts.org/crawler/2009/08/07/new-freedom-for-children/ Children have certainly mastered the art of selecting, negotiating and even refusing the chores their parents assign to them. This growth in personal autonomy at home over the last few decades could be the result of shrinking opportunities to participate in activities outside the home, without Mom and Dad looking over their shoulder, according to Dr. Markella Rutherford from Wellesley College in the US. Her analysis of back issues of the popular US magazine, Parents, maps how the portrayal of parental authority and children’s autonomy has changed over the last century katiebda Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:41:17 +0000 dm2 research http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/article-summaries/18-01/ Spring 2008 issue of the journal is dedicated to children's media use. katiebda Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:23:14 +0000 dm2 research