Thursday, November 4, 2010

I was intrigued by the Kozma/Clark debate. Cognitive questions versus mediated solutions... My position (assigned) ended up being my position. I think learning is absolutely influenced, perhaps for both good and bad, by mediated information. How can your synapses not be burned by vivid 3-D color images of a war, or landscape? Those images will in some way affect the learning process in which they might be incorporated. It seems summed up that media can faciliate learning in different ways for different learners, but increases the options the brain has to encompass and internalize new information.