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

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shared by Phil Taylor on 13 Aug 10 - Cached
  • 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.
  • Phil Taylor on 13 Aug 10
     
    "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

5 Reasons Teenagers Act the Way They Do - Mental Floss - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 02 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Risk Taking
  • This means teens literally cannot come to a decision as fast as an adult.
  • scans showed that the reward center of the teen brain became much more active in the company of their peers
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  • Giving in to Peer Pressure
  • Lack of Concentration
  • While teens may look more like adults than kids, to a neuroscientist their brains resemble a child’s.
  • Overly Emotional
  • That means that if you are expressing an emotion—say, disappointment—a teen’s brain has a 50% chance of misinterpreting it as a different emotion, like anger.
  • Getting Dumber
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