Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the

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What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines? Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology offers concise, nontechnical explanations of major principles of memory and attention - concepts that all teachers should know and that can inform how technology is used in their classes.

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What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?Human minds are made of memories, and today those memories have competition. Biological memory capacities are being supplanted, or at least supplemented, by digital ones, as we rely on recording—phone cameras, digital video, speech-to-text—to capture information we'll need in the future and then rely on those stored recordings to know what happened in the past. Search engines have taken over not only traditional reference materials but also the knowledge base that used to be encoded in our own brains. Google remembers, so we don't have to. And when we don't have to, we no longer can. Or can we?Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology offers concise, nontechnical explanations of major principles of memory and attention—concepts that all teachers should know and that can inform how technology is used in their classes. Teachers will come away with a new appreciation of the importance of memory for learning, useful ideas for handling and discussing technology with their students, and an understanding of how memory is changing in our technology-saturated world.

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Human minds are made of memories, and today those memories have competition. Biological memory capacities are being supplanted, or at least supplemented, by digital ones, as we rely on recording--phone cameras, digital video, speech-to-text--to capture information we'll need in the future and then rely on those stored recordings to know what happened in the past. Search engines have taken over not only traditional reference materials but also the knowledge base that used to be encoded in our own brains. Google remembers, so we don't have to. And when we don't have to, we no longer can. Or can we? Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology offers concise, nontechnical explanations of major principles of memory and attention--concepts that all teachers should know and that can inform how technology is used in their classes. Teachers will come away with a new appreciation of the importance of memory for learning, useful ideas for handling and discussing technology with their students, and an understanding of how memory is changing in our technology-saturated world.

Author Biography

Michelle D. Miller is a professor of psychological sciences and President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Machines, Memory, and Learning1. What Technology Does to Us (and for Us): Taking a Critical Look at Common Narrative  2. Why We Remember, Why We Forget3. Enhancing Memory and Why It Matters (Even though Google Exists)4. Memory Requires Attention5. The Devices We Can't Put Down: Smartphones, Laptops, Memory, and LearningConclusion: How Memory Can Thrive in a Technology-Saturated FutureNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

Review

"This is the book we need: a clear, lively, and authoritative examination of technology, memory, and learning--perhaps the most critical subjects in all of higher education right now." Kevin Gannon, author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto

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"This is the book we need: a clear, lively, and authoritative examination of technology, memory, and learning--perhaps the most critical subjects in all of higher education right now." Kevin Gannon, author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto

Details ISBN1952271479 Author Michelle D. Miller Short Title Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology Publisher West Virginia University Press Series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1952271479 ISBN-13 9781952271472 Format Paperback Subtitle Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World Imprint West Virginia University Press Country of Publication United States Pages 280 Place of Publication Morganstown AU Release Date 2022-04-01 NZ Release Date 2022-04-01 UK Release Date 2022-04-01 Publication Date 2022-04-30 DEWEY 371.33 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2022-04-30 We've got this

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