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...extraordinarily good at finding and manipulating information. And presumably because modern childhood tilts toward visual rather than print media, they are especially skilled at analyzing visual data and images, observes Claudia Koonz, professor of history at Duke University. A growing number of college professors are using film, audio clips and PowerPoint presentations to play to their students' strengths and capture their evanescent attention. It's a powerful way to teach history, says Koonz. "I love bringing media into the classroom, to be able to go to the website for Edward R. Murrow and hear his voice as he walked with...
Many students make brilliant use of media in their work, embedding audio files and video clips in their presentations, but the habit of grazing among many data streams leaves telltale signs in their writing, according to some educators. "The breadth of their knowledge and their ability to find answers has just burgeoned," says Roberts of his students at Stanford, "but my impression is that their ability to write clear, focused and extended narratives has eroded somewhat." Says Koonz: "What I find is paragraphs that make sense internally, but don't necessarily follow a line of argument...
...latest headlines from a variety of news organizations and others. Using a technology called Really Simple Syndication (RSS), we can collect many different Web “feeds” into one browser window or stand-alone application. Then there are all the mailing lists, discussion groups, podcasts (audio files downloaded to digital devices), and videos, among many ways to be informed, entertained or otherwise diverted.Yet this is not enough, not when new sources of “content,” as the information industry likes to call creative endeavors and conversations, are flooding into our homes and offices...
...TIME's Aparisim Ghosh spoke at length this week with U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in Baghdad. Listen to audio clips from the interview...
Click on the links below to listen to audio clips of the interview...