Scary, but true, and maybe useful for Louise? The purpose of this study is to address a gap in current research on digital natives by developing the Digital Natives Assessment Scale DNAS. It is a self-report instrument designed to measure…
Author: lwise
I am a cognitive scientist, psychologist, and online learning specialist with an interest in taekwon-do, web stuff, cycling, indoor soccer and sundry other things. My staff profile at Swinburne is at http://www.lilydale.swinburne.edu.au/staff/profiles/lwise.htm. My lab website is at http://mocapsuite.edublogs.org/. I have bursts of web activity, and then large lapses. And so it's been since Al Gore invented the internet.
Phone phobia in Gen Y?
While certain generations think of the phone as a source of friendly interaction, 26-year-old Jordan Cameron sees an old fashion phone call as intrusive. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/small-business/trends/blogs/the-big-idea/phone-phobia-the-latest-gen-y-disease-20130716-2q160.html This article from The Age suggests that Gen Y people don’t answer the…
British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows – Home News – UK – The Independent
British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows – Home News – UK – The Independent. via Lyndon Walker This article compares survey results of people’s opinions about prevalence of certain things compared with actual statistical data about those same…
Plagiarism in the digital age
Jason, Andi Garing and I were having a brief discussion about the concept of plagiarism, and what it means in the digital age of Google, mashups, retweeting, copy+paste. In talking to students and looking at what they do, I get…
Major task of parenting is to help kids regulate their emotional arousal state
This article from The Age proposes that exposure to prolonged stress through domestic violence can lead to toxic stress in children – ongoing stress that leads to brain damage. It also identifies the role of parenting as helping children to…
Themes and site layout
As the lab website evolves and more people start generating content, we can come to a consensus about how the site should be laid out. Although I prefer the visual layout of the theme we started with, I only just…
Languages of Melbourne detected from Twitter | Technical Blog
Languages of Melbourne detected from Twitter | Technical Blog. How cool is this picture? Tweeters tweet most in Malay, Arabic, Indonesian, Japanese and Spanish … the article actually talks more about Malay versus Indonesian, the lack of Greek tweeters, the…
Google faces
Googling for faces in maps of the earth (via Stephen Downes) The way we perceive our environment is a complex procedure. By the help of our vision we are able to recognize friends within a huge crowd, approximate the speed…
Been Bored lately?
Been Bored lately? from The Age Social media and iPhones aren’t a cure for boredom so much as a distraction from it. And it is a distraction that has the twin effect of contributing in the end to the very…
OkTrends – data from an online dating site
OkTrends. (Data from the OKCupid online dating site) I’m just browsing through my old stuff on another site and came across this site – it has some interesting data on the way people project themselves online. It’s different from Facebook…