reading questions 2

What I did:
I read the required article, titled "Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says". It was a very interesting article about some popular wisdom that has always been presented as truth.

What I Learned:
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NETS-T:  This assignment related to:
- Standard 3d, which states that teachers are to "model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning."
-Standard 5a, which states that teachers are to "participate in local and global learning communities..."  This article increased my professional knowledge and caused me to reflect on popular wisdom.  We students in this class were all involved in reading this and responding to it.

How It Can be Used:  This article took a hard analytical look at the commonly held wisdom that "We remember 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we see and hear, 70% of what we say, 90% of what we say and do."  As with most conventional wisdom, it isn't totally wrong, but it is far from totally correct.  From this article I came away with the knowledge that I should "question the data".  In this case, actual numbers (percentages) are given.  I should always question how it was tested, and how valid is this data.  I should teach my students not to accept what they have "always heard", but should develop healthy skepticism.  This is especially important in the technology age, because not everything on the Internet is accurate.