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Sitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation - Nilofer Merchant - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • So four years ago, I made a simple change when I switched one meeting from a coffee meeting to a walking-meeting.
Phil Taylor

Why I Returned My iPad - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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    Interesting. Don't blame the iPad, but we do need time to be bored
Phil Taylor

How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • We switch-task, rapidly shifting from one thing to another, interrupting ourselves unproductively, and losing time in the process.
Phil Taylor

Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 0 views

  • e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
  • "It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
  • Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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  • Wolf makes sure she stays off-line at specific times. "For a half hour before bedtime and a half hour in the morning I do nothing digital," she says.
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    "e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
Phil Taylor

Education, Social Media, and Ethics: Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Educati... - 0 views

  • an ongoing study that explores the ways in which young people’s use of social-networking sites, blogging, online games, and other forms of digital media are shaping their “ethical minds” in that realm.
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