T. David Gordon served as a professor of Media Ecology at Grove City College for several decades, and as laptops, smartphones, and social media arrived on the scene in successive waves, he and his colleagues began to notice a change in students’ ability to pay attention and to process the various reading assignments. Shane discusses this with Dr. Gordon along with some of the issues he addresses in an article he recently wrote titled, “The Material is Not Immaterial.”
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Media Ecology for the Family, by T. David Gordon
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Why Johnny Can’t Preach, by T. David Gordon
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Life on the Screen, and Alone Together, by Sherry Turkle
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention, by Maggie Jackson
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Distracting Ourselves to Death, T. David Gordon on WHI
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Recovering Focus in a Distracted Time, Maggie Jackson on WHI
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