Schuurman, N. (2013). Tweet me your talk: Geographical learning and knowledge production 2.0. The Professional Geographer, 65(3), 369-377.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Learning and Knowledge in our World
The main issue presented in the article is about geographical learning and how all these changes in technology have altered the way that we pay attention and process new information. With the new technologies in the world, we as a people have become more and more dependent on the Internet and social media for knowledge as opposed to books and journals. This shift in learning behavior and acquisition of knowledge is representative of the way that people think and behave today. People have been shown to have shorter attention spans and are shown to read way less than we used to. Even the way that we make decisions has changed as we have evolved and started to become overwhelmed when we are presented with too much information at once. Our shift in cognitive skills and knowledge acquisition has led to a change in technology as well; online journals have begun to show previews of articles, allow people to comment and post about articles like they do on social media sites, and some even have twitter accounts where they post articles. With academic journal twitters and social media as a main source of knowledge for a lot of people, we can only hope that our skills as human beings won't soon be replaced by technology as well.
Schuurman, N. (2013). Tweet me your talk: Geographical learning and knowledge production 2.0. The Professional Geographer, 65(3), 369-377.
Schuurman, N. (2013). Tweet me your talk: Geographical learning and knowledge production 2.0. The Professional Geographer, 65(3), 369-377.
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It also physically affects people. Peoples bodies are suffering from our attachment to technology. In the last twenty years alone it has basically been "technological revolution" with the introduction of complex and luxury technology. Owning multiple pieces of technology has become the social "norm"and people have a hard time being separated from their technological apparatus'.
ReplyDeleteAlong with physically affecting people it affects the type of news and knowledge we acquire. When people are only focusing on news stories and information coming from a stream of social media sources it limits the perspective and information given. Also, the sources reliability may not always be there and people forget to take things with a grain of salt.
ReplyDeleteTechnology can has negative physical effects on people, but it can have positive effects as well. Productivity can be increased with easier access to information (on the downside, it can also lead to procrastination). In terms of reading, newer technology can help people with certain eyesight issues, such as dyslexia or color blindness (such as changing colors or adjusting fonts on a digital screen). Only time will tell if newer technology's advantages will outweigh its disadvantages.
ReplyDeleteTo be completely honest, I would say that the development to human being is a circulation, but mostly positive. Long time ago, people can only live like twenty or thirty years. It's the technology which makes people live longer. On the other hand, the intake of chemical things makes people get more and more disease. The balance between use technology appropriately and rely on it is the most important to us.
ReplyDeleteDoes the article have anything to do with GIS? I definitely agree with the comment that our population has developed shorter attention spans and does not read as much. That fact is pretty depressing, but unfortunately as technology progresses I think it won't get any better, and our skills as human beings surely could be replaced by technology.
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