Positive learning in the age of information : a blessing or a curse? / Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Gabriel Wittum, Andreas Dengel, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

While information and communication technology has a vast influence on our lives, little is understood about its effects on the way we learn. In the Age of Information, students - consciously or not - are learning in diverse formal and informal environments from a broad variety of sources, with scientific knowledge competing against unfounded assertions, and misinformation and biased data spreading through social and mass media. The Positive Learning in the Age of Information (PLATO) program illustrated by the contributions in this book unites outstanding and highly innovative expertise on the fundamentals of information processing and human learning to investigate a new paradigm of positive learning as a vital, morally and ethically oriented approach, which is of existential importance to maintaining the civilization standards of a modern society in the digital age.

Part I. Theoretical fundamentals of positive learning. Higher Education : A Platonic Ideal / Gardner, Howard -- Why We Should Teach the Humanities / Kosslyn, Stephen M. -- Conceptual Fundamentals for a Theoretical and Empirical Framework of Positive Learning / Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga (and 4 others) -- Part II. Learning as an interplay between neuronal, cognitive and information structures. Hand Gestures Alert Auditory Cortices / Nagels, Arne (and 3 others) -- Students’ Visual Attention While Solving Multiple Representation Problems in Upper-Division Physics : an eye tracking study / Klein, Pascal, Andreas Dengel, and Jochen Kuhn -- Supporting and Hindering Effects on Rational Reasoning / Knauff, Markus -- A Concept for Quantitative Comparison of Mathematical and Natural Language and its possible Effect on Learning / Wittum, Gabriel (and 5 others) -- Knowledge Representation and Cognitive Skills in Problem Solving / Bisang, Walter -- Integrating Computational Linguistic Analysis of Multilingual Learning Data and Educational Measurement Approaches to Explore Learning in Higher Education / Mehler, Alexander (and 5 others) -- Part III. Learning as interaction and communication processes in formal and informal learning environments. Media Effects on Positive and Negative Learning / Maurer, Marcus, Oliver Quiring, and Christian Schemer -- The Norm of Neutrality in Collaborative Knowledge Construction / Oeberst, Aileen, Kurt de Vreeze, and Christian Schemer -- Why Google Can’t Save Us / Wineburg, Sam (and 3 others) -- Approaches to the Study of Negative Learning / Koretz, Daniel -- Positive Learning and Pluriliteracies / Meyer, Oliver (and 3 others) -- Acquisition of Generic Competencies Through Project Simulation in Translation Studies / Hansen-Schirra, Silvia (and 2 others) -- Positive Learning in the Age of Information (PLATO) – Critical Remarks / Shavelson, Richard J. -- Part IV. Learning with ethics and morality Ethics of Beliefs / Wiese, Wanja -- A Model of Positive and Negative Learning / Dormann, Christian (and 2 others) -- Reconciling Morality and Rationality / Minnameier, Gerhard -- Positive Learning Through Negative Learning / Oser, Fritz -- Part V. Learning with information and communication technology : impact and risk evaluation. Deeply Sensing Learners for Better Assistance / Kise, Koichi -- Augmented Learning on Anticipating Textbooks with Eye Tracking / Ishimaru, Shoya (and others) -- The Potential of the Internet of Things for Supporting Learning and Training in the Digital Age / Kravčík, Miloš (and 2 others) -- The Digital Misinformation Pipeline / Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca.