Summary of "Memory Could Link to Attention Span"

Ryo
EAP1-B

In his article entitled “Memory Could Link to Attention Span”, Scarpa, S. (2003) said that researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are trying to find how much information a human being can memorize at any given moment. Nelson Cowan and Scott Sauls do the study for the working memory. They say this study would give cardinal information to educators. According to them, a working memory is the quantity of information a human hold in mind to complete a mental task. From their experiments, the human mind memorizes information by categorizing it into some logical order. The researchers found that adult could memorize more chunks of information than children by using test information which has no relationship by connected items together. Cowan asserts some general tips. Insubordination would not necessarily mean opposition on the group of students. Thus, the researchers state that children may have good attention span, if they have a good working memory.

References:
Scarpa, S (2003). Memory Could Link to Attention Span. Retrieved October 21, 2006, from http://www.districtadministration.com/

Summary response of New Views on Video Violence

Ryo
AE2-B

In the article “New Views on Video Violence” by Dorothy and Jerome Singer, the authors state that watching violence on TV has more negative effects on children than reading violent stories. First, watching TV makes children feel scared by using various technologies like a camera. Second, children tend to spend much more time watching television, according to the statistics. Third, it is easier to understand what television says than reading a book for young children. Fourth, when the scary books are read by parents, they can express the stories more mildly to their children. Finally, when children read scary books, they can control the reading speed and reread the books whenever they want. In conclusion, the author suggests that watching violent TV make more serious effects on children than reading violent stories. I agree with this article, and I think watching violence on TV causes more serious problems than reading a book.
One of my reasons is that when you watch TV, you usually can see live people on the TV. In the killing scenes, TV can describe more grotesque by using live people. On the other hand, a book cannot describe the killing scenes vividly. When you read about the killing scene in the book, you always have to think and image about the scene in your brain. In addition to this, you can image the scene more mildly so that you don’t feel scary. Watching the live persons’ killing scenes impresses stronger impacts for children than reading a book.
Another my reason is that there are many murder games. Those games can sweep away children easily. Almost all boys usually like those games, so especially they tend to be more captivated by those games than girls do. Also those games sometimes teach them how to use a gun, or kill people. Therefore, it is ironic that those games can be good demonstration of murder for children.
All in all, there are many problems when you watch violence on TV. Then, the problems are more serious than reading a book for those reasons. If children continue to watch killing scenes, and also play killing games on TV, I think that they might be felonious murders someday. Therefore, I think watching violence on TV gives worse effects to children than reading a book.

Weblog Assignment #5

AE2-B
RYO

I visited this web site. If you visit this web site, you can get the information about DOOM (the name of a killing game). This computer game was developed by id Software in 1993. This is one of the most famous first-person shooter games in the world. Now, there are several series because these games have a high popularity among young men. On the other hand, there are many arguments against killing scenes, and shoot-out scenes in these games.


My opinion

I think these killing games may cause serious problems for young people, because if you play these games, these teach you how to use a gun, kill people, and something like that. Moreover, if you continue to play these games, you might get an illusion. Then, you will become unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Even though these games are liked by young people, I don't think these are really good for those reasons.

Weblog Assignment #4

AE2-B
RYO

If you click here, you can go to SLOWLANE.COM. this web site helps staying at home dads and their families. There are many searchable online references, resources and networks on this web site. Therefore, they can find out a lot of information which can help them easily. We can also read articles, buy many books, see news, and enjoy poetris. All of them are written for staying at home dads including local and international dad organizations, single dads, new dads, and divorced dads. In addition, there are many links not only to discuss about those issues, but also to communicate with people who have same situations.


My opinion

Nowaday, dads who stay at home like single dads, new dads, or divorced dads are incleasing gradually. I think this web site is very usuful for those people, because they can find out the way to live more comfortably. They also can contact with people who have same situations, so they can share their ideas and opinions each other. As a result of this, they can release their stresses and strains for their sociaties or families. I think this web site offers them a good opportunity to solve their problems.

Weblog Assignment #3

I saw here. The article on the web site states that many European women are still in cruel circumstances for their work despite the fact that they do better in school than men. From this article, we can get the information about present circumstances of gender roles for their work, and know about some different treatment between male and female. There are mainly three kinds of information with some of the statistics. According to the first statistics, Latvia has the highest proportion of women managers. The second statistics show that Cyprus has the highest gender pay gap. The third statistics show the average of one third of women who are part-time workers.


My opinion

There is a similar problem in Japan. I wonder that despite the fact that a lot of women have better education in school than men, this is not reflected on entry to the labor market, and if they get jobs, their wages are less than men's wages. However, as this article says, I think this matter is getting better gradually. One of the reasons is that gender institution deeply thinks about it. Also in some countries, many women clamor against their government policy, because of lower pay. Therefore, I think this matter will be improved in the future.

Weblog Assignment #2

I saw this site. This mentions discussing the learning process called socialization. There are contents in the beginning of this article. The contents is mainly separated into two parts; socialization for social agents (humans) and socialization for non-humans (animal species). Also this article has a definition of the word "socialization". According to this article, socialization means "the process by which human beings or animals learn to adopt the behavior patterns of the community in which they live".


My opinion

There are contents in the beginning of this article. I think this is a nice notice to attract people. It is easy to understand what the article is describing. And also I was surprised when I knew that animals have socialization, even feral animals. From the explanation of this article, I think all creatures have socialization like humans. However socialization is not always good thing. It sometimes causes gender socialization because of reinforcing gender roles.
Therefore I think we need to have democratic (equal) socialization to decrease discrimination between boys and girls.

Kaguyahime

Once upon a time, a grandpa and grandma lived somewhere. Grandpa made money by making baskets with cut bamboo. One day, when he went to the forest as usual, he found bamboo which twinkled brightly. he cut this bamboo and looked into the inside of this banboo. Then, there was a baby girl in this bamboo. As they had no children, they decided to bring up this baby girl. He named the baby girl "Kaguyahime". She grew up very well, and she became very beautiful. She was proposed to a lot of young men many times. She led them to look for treasure as a condition for accepting their proposal, but the treasure never existed, so they couldn't find the treasure. So actually Kaguyahime didn't want to marry. She became sad day be day. One day, grandpa asked her about that. She andwered, an ambassador may pick me up from the moon before long. Then, finally the day came. As grandpa didn't want to give her to them, he attacked them. However, it was hopeless to pratect Kaguyahime. Eventually, Kaguyahime returned to the moon with the anbassador. It's a sad story.