Had technical problems with the blog tonight. I blame Comcast. This after watching Frontline on PBS this evening about the cutting edge internet world. Study done at MIT on their students, how the kind of multitasking used in emailing, googling, gaming, etc. makes overall performance sluggish and disjointed. How on an exam over material that could have been processed by minimal attention in class and on the reading assignment resulted in a grades of 75. This from the best and the brightest at MIT as they sit in classes with their laptops.
Commentators did say that there were plenty of nay-sayers when we went from letters to telephones. With every tech advancement we lose something and we gain something. Hmm, maybe life is a Casino after all.
I agree....when sitting in classes I saw plenty of students intent on getting every word typed in....but were not really listening for content.....then ya gotta go and read the lecture that one could have listened to....made no sense to me.....but we all still graduated...to each his/her own I suppose.....
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