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National Defense Education Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • arguably catalyzed by early Soviet success in the Space Race, notably the launch of the first-ever satellite, Sputnik
  • designed to fulfill two purposes
  • provide the country with specific defense oriented personnel
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  • foreign language scholars, area studies centers, and engineering students
  • financial assistance--primarily through the National Defense Student Loan program
  • law on September 2, 1958
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sage.sdsu.edu edtec edtec540 week3 guest speaker student organization
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  • Student Association for Graduates in Educational Technology at San Diego State University.

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The Myth of Multitasking - Christine Rosen » The New Atlantis || SPRING 2008 - 0 views

www.thenewatlantis.com/...the-myth-of-multitasking multitasking article attention psychology learning
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  • singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure one’s time; it was a mark of intelligence
  • multitasking
  • parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible
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  • brain’s “multitasking hot spot
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      Kyle Murley on 10 Sep 09
       
      gosh this is great
  • 2005, the BBC reported on a research study, funded by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London
  • 2007 was Linda Stone’s notion of “continuous partial attention,
  • multitasking a “mythical activity in which people believe they can perform two or more tasks simultaneously.”
  • ADT is “purely a response to the hyperkinetic environment in which we live,”
  • “Attention Deficit Trait,”
  • workers took an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from interruptions such as phone calls or answering e-mail and return to their original task
  • “task-switching”—that is, multitasking behavior—the flow of blood increases to a region of the frontal cortex called Brodmann area 10
  • the last part of the brain to evolve, the most mysterious and exciting part
  • rather than a bottleneck in the brain, a process of “adaptive executive control” takes place, which “schedules task processes appropriately to obey instructions about their relative priorities and serial order,
  • with training, the brain can learn to task-switch more effectively
  • people who are not distracted show activity in the hippocampus, a region involved in storing and recalling information
  • people who are distracted or multitasking show activity in the striatum, a region of the brain involved in learning new skills
  • Media multitasking—that is, the simultaneous use of several different media, such as television, the Internet, video games, text messages, telephones, and e-mail—is clearly on the rise,
  • letters he wrote to his so
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    This article appears in the SPRING 2008 issue of The New Atlantis This article appears in the SPRING 2008 issue of The New Atlantis
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HPV vaccine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Two HPV vaccines are currently on the market: Gardasil and Cervarix.[4]
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic(July/August 2008) - 0 views

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  • Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.
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      J.T. Katavich on 14 Sep 09
       
      I have noticed this as well, the speed at which the world runs is changing the thought process, information is now readily available in any situation and waiting around has become a major inconvenience.
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Rate of return / Return on investment- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • rate of return (ROR), also known as return on investment (ROI), rate of profit or sometimes just return, is the ratio of money gained or lost (whether realized or unrealized) on an investment relative to the amount of money invested.
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