Positive Learning in the Age of Information: A Blessing or a Curse?

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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. Front Matter ....Pages I-VIII Editorial – About a ‚PLATO‘ (Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Gabriel Wittum, Andreas Dengel)....Pages 1-6 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 Higher Education: A Platonic Ideal (Howard Gardner)....Pages 9-21 Why We Should Teach the Humanities (Stephen M. Kosslyn)....Pages 23-27 Conceptual Fundamentals for a Theoretical and Empirical Framework of Positive Learning (Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Susanne Schmidt, Dimitri Molerov, Richard J. Shavelson, David Berliner)....Pages 29-50 Front Matter ....Pages 51-51 Hand Gestures Alert Auditory Cortices (Arne Nagels, Spencer D. Kelly, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube)....Pages 53-66 Students’ Visual Attention While Solving Multiple Representation Problems in Upper-Division Physics (Pascal Klein, Andreas Dengel, Jochen Kuhn)....Pages 67-87 Supporting and Hindering Effects on Rational Reasoning (Markus Knauff)....Pages 89-107 A Concept for Quantitative Comparison of Mathematical and Natural Language and its possible Effect on Learning (Gabriel Wittum, Robert Jabs, Michael Hoffer, Arne Nägel, Walter Bisang, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia)....Pages 109-126 Knowledge Representation and Cognitive Skills in Problem Solving (Walter Bisang)....Pages 127-144 Integrating Computational Linguistic Analysis of Multilingual Learning Data and Educational Measurement Approaches to Explore Learning in Higher Education (Alexander Mehler, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Wahed Hemati, Dimitri Molerov, Andy Lücking, Susanne Schmidt)....Pages 145-193 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Media Effects on Positive and Negative Learning (Marcus Maurer, Oliver Quiring, Christian Schemer)....Pages 197-208 The Norm of Neutrality in Collaborative Knowledge Construction (Aileen Oeberst, Jort de Vreeze, Ulrike Cress)....Pages 209-219 Why Google Can’t Save Us (Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone, Sarah McGrew, Teresa Ortega)....Pages 221-228 Approaches to the Study of Negative Learning (Daniel Koretz)....Pages 229-234 Positive Learning and Pluriliteracies (Oliver Meyer, Margarete Imhof, Do Coyle, Mita Banerjee)....Pages 235-265 Acquisition of Generic Competencies Through Project Simulation in Translation Studies (Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Sascha Hofmann, Jean Nitzke)....Pages 267-280 Positive Learning in the Age of Information (PLATO) – Critical Remarks (Richard J. Shavelson)....Pages 281-291 Front Matter ....Pages 293-293 Ethics of Beliefs (Wanja Wiese)....Pages 295-314 A Model of Positive and Negative Learning (Christian Dormann, Eva Demerouti, Arnold Bakker)....Pages 315-346 Reconciling Morality and Rationality (Gerhard Minnameier)....Pages 347-361 Positive Learning Through Negative Learning (Fritz Oser)....Pages 363-370 Front Matter ....Pages 371-371 Deeply Sensing Learners for Better Assistance (Koichi Kise)....Pages 373-385 Augmented Learning on Anticipating Textbooks with Eye Tracking (Shoya Ishimaru, Syed Saqib Bukhari, Carina Heisel, Nicolas Großmann, Pascal Klein, Jochen Kuhn et al.)....Pages 387-398 The Potential of the Internet of Things for Supporting Learning and Training in the Digital Age (Miloš Kravčík, Carsten Ullrich, Christoph Igel)....Pages 399-412 The Digital Misinformation Pipeline (Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia)....Pages 413-421 Back Matter ....Pages 423-429