Notices tagged with ability

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Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be?

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• prosthetics
• thefuturesoon

But in one instant, after Pistorius entered a summer 2007 track meet in Rome and placed second in a field of runners possessing flesh and bone legs, he and I were deemed too abled.

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.: The Trouble with Bright Girls

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• confidence
• education
• encouragement
• gender
• giftedness
• girls
• learning
• persistence
• psychology
• women

The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr | Book review | Books | The Guardian

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• analysis
• education
• internet
• psychology
• technology

Carr cites a bit of psychology and neuroscience, but he doesn't seem to notice that the study he unveils most triumphantly actually refutes half of his own argument. An experiment showed web novices' brains changing in response to internet use, but it also showed "no significant difference in brain activity" between the novices and a web-savvy control group when both were engaged in "a simulation of book reading". In other words, people who used the internet regularly had not lost the ability to read books after all. In Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, by contrast, John Palfrey and Urs Gasser have actually bothered to find out what young people do online, rather than just assuming them to be glazed, distracted skimmers. Here is a far more nuanced story of a teenage girl's "newsgathering process", which alternates between "grazing" and a "deep dive", when she wants to know more about a particular topic and will indeed read in-depth.

"What To Do When You Meet A Sighted Person"

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