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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction

"Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning."
Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Your Brain on Computers

Articles in this series examine how a deluge of data can affect the way people think and behave.

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1 comment:

  1. This is a great post. Though some of these teenagers have an idea what they want to do in the future, technology is just bringing them further away in the some cases and is becoming a distraction from actually accomplishing these goals.

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