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Ben M

Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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technology new media attention brain

shared by Ben M on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Ben M on 07 Jun 10
     
    What is technology doing to our brains (and by extension, our relationships)?
Allison Frost

Censorship causing brain drain in China? | Chicago Press Release Services - 0 views

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china education censorship

shared by Allison Frost on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Students are leaving mainland China for the opportunity to study in Hong Kong instead.
  • “We are a small elite who can afford freedom beyond China’s great firewall,” says “Li Cheng” from Shanghai.
  • Li, a student at the University of Hong Kong, did not want to disclose his real name or details about his study program, fearing consequences back home. “I live in one country, but it feels like having two identities,” Li said. “In Shanghai, I use special software to access sites blacklisted by the government, like Twitter or the uncensored version of Google.
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  • “In Hong Kong, I am taught to integrate these tools in my research.”
  • Hong Kong is nothing like mainland China in terms of its free flow of information, freedom of speech and multiparty political system.
  • The exodus of students such as Li could signify a brain drain for mainland China, according to Bandurski. “Without political reform, economic growth in China will decline,” he said. “Talents will leave China. Students and teachers who want to have more access to information are not dissidents anymore. They are becoming the mainstream.”
  • With new freedom at hand, only a few fresh HKU graduates have returned to the mainland. Last year, only 3 percent of HKU graduates from mainland China returned home to look for a job. That matches the trend of Chinese students studying overseas. More than 70 percent of the more than 1 million Chinese students abroad did not return home after graduation between 1978 and 2006, according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  • Allison Frost on 07 Jun 10
     
    many students leaving beijing to study in hong kong. access to google and other sources of information, emphasis on information to further education, preference
Amanda Giles

The Multitasking Generation -- Printout -- TIME - 0 views

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identity digital native plugged in

shared by Amanda Giles on 28 May 10 - Cached
  • Amanda Giles on 28 May 10
     
    They're e-mailing, IMing and downloading while writing the history essay. What is all that digital juggling doing to kids' brains and their family life?
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