Staying on top of the news is important these days. Especially in the tech world where one day your company is on top of the world and tomorrow your history. Here are a few of the best tech news sites out there:
http://techcrunch.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/
http://www.wired.com/
For this post take a look at these sites and choose one article from one site about something that interests you and summarize it for our class. Talk a little about why you chose it as well. Please include a link to the article in your post.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Bringing Consciousness to our Tech Use
Distraction: noun
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1.
a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else.
"the company found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight"
Consciousness: noun
- the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.
- the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.
- the awareness or perception of something by a person.
Growing up in America today is to be a part of a society that is rapidly and constantly changing. The fact is you are surrounded by technology and information and spend a large portion of your time interacting with it. But what is it doing to your brain?
As we saw from the video in class, our brains are not wired for multi-tasking. Some tasks require more concentration than others. Some of us are better at doing a few things at once. Studies show that women are better multi-taskers than men because of all the responsibilities they genetically inherit through childbirth.
One of the biggest problems addressed in the video was that people are slower when switching between tasks. Meaning they are not concentrating on what they are doing and therefore do a poor job on the task at hand.
Specific Instructions: For this post think about something you do that requires your full attention. Example: Homework. Then think about your habits with technology while trying to concentrate. Do you listen to music while doing homework? Is that bad? Do you respond to texts while doing homework? Go online and find evidence to support your response. Please include the link to the site you use in your response. -5 points if you respond with no link. Do not copy other people's posts, ideas or links. You will get a 0 for plagiarizing.
If you missed the video in class please watch the first 8:40 minutes of this documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
Take the test and see for yourself: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-distraction-filtering-demo.html
1.
a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else.
"the company found passenger travel a distraction from the main business of moving freight"
Consciousness: noun
- the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.
- the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.
- the awareness or perception of something by a person.
Growing up in America today is to be a part of a society that is rapidly and constantly changing. The fact is you are surrounded by technology and information and spend a large portion of your time interacting with it. But what is it doing to your brain?
As we saw from the video in class, our brains are not wired for multi-tasking. Some tasks require more concentration than others. Some of us are better at doing a few things at once. Studies show that women are better multi-taskers than men because of all the responsibilities they genetically inherit through childbirth.
One of the biggest problems addressed in the video was that people are slower when switching between tasks. Meaning they are not concentrating on what they are doing and therefore do a poor job on the task at hand.
Specific Instructions: For this post think about something you do that requires your full attention. Example: Homework. Then think about your habits with technology while trying to concentrate. Do you listen to music while doing homework? Is that bad? Do you respond to texts while doing homework? Go online and find evidence to support your response. Please include the link to the site you use in your response. -5 points if you respond with no link. Do not copy other people's posts, ideas or links. You will get a 0 for plagiarizing.
If you missed the video in class please watch the first 8:40 minutes of this documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
Take the test and see for yourself: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-distraction-filtering-demo.html
If you missed the video in class please watch the first 8:40 minutes of this documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
Take the test and see for yourself: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-distraction-filtering-demo.html
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