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How media making an impact on cognitive learning?
part 1: what is the cognitive learning ?

cognitive learning is a style of learning that encourages students to use their brains more effectively .this way encourages students to fully engage in the learning process so learning,thinking and remembering get easier.

 we are in the 21st century and children learn in the context of their social and cultural environment and media are in in the children's learning environments ,they are an important influence on burgeoning social cognition .
first part in the conference was talking about the age of the students that must receive the message from the media and choosing the content carefully depending on the age and also at some different ages of life students learn more from narrative storytelling, it work best to extract the moral message  from the content for example:

•  in early childhood: age realistic stories positive consequence and simpler storylines would work best with the students.
• middle childhood or early tween :introducing some nuance but still difficult to extract moral .
• teen years:less didactic would be more successful.

 part 2:media and cognitive learning:

• what does the research say about how the 21st century digital media and technology impacting our cognitive learning ?

we all know that cognitive learning is related to our capability to memorize things and our ability to critical thinking but the media nowadays is able to memorize everything and knows anything that would able to affect our memory and critical thinking for example some research shows that :

• students that have access on the internet taking more time to memorize things than that the students that have only computers and papers, also another study said that students with networking computers has the lower average in critical thinking from students with only papers and computers so we can conclude, that accessing the internet would affect negatively the students cognitive learning.
• just seeing a smart phone(with no sound) can affect cognitive performance , also a forced separation from a ringing phone can increase heart rate and anxiety,phantom vibration well documented (89% of people report experiencing these) and also a phone being on and being face up affect cognitive performance on the task so just having a phone can distract a cognitive attention and performance of the students.
• also taking photographs diminished memory of observed objects(students will recall the name of the folder in which the relevant information was located is easier to remember the information itself ).
• writing notes versus typing them improve comprehension and memory.
• also expectation of having later access of information can make us less inclined to encode and store information in long term memory (we remember what is important for us to remember or what we can't access through other means e.g : google).
• so what about computer usage and academic performance ? some study at west point shows 3 conditions : students with laptops ,ipad faceup and students with no computer. at the end of the quarter students with no computers conditions scored 1.7 points higher than other conditions so using computer in classroom not necessary would have  a positive effect on performance.
• however study shows that participants in video game condition show enhanced mental rotation ability but girls who play video games with spatial component improve dramatically in this area .

==>so we can conclude that digital media and technology impact cognitive performance in both positive and negative ways .

part 3:the combination of computer use internet and smart phone has changed the cognitive skills required of individuals . the students can rapidly check his or her smartphone whether the professor is right or indeed whether there isn't some other authority offering an entirely different approach .with the erosion of that relationship (between professor and students) goes the environment that nurtured it ; the segregated space of the classroom where for an hour or so all attention was focused on a single person who brought all of his or her experience  to the service of the group.this an argument that hate technology but nowadays technology in the class can make the relationship between the teacher and students more flexible and make the students more motivated, excited for learning. also there are some app that relate the parents with the students and classroom that will make student more enthusiastic and excited to do their best in the classroom.