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Screen Free Week 4/29/13 - 5/5/13 (3 posts)

  1. truthmod
    Administrator

    I am participating in Screen Free Week. I will be attempting cut out nearly all my non-work-related internet use. I do not plan to post for the next week...unless there is an emergency. Be back Monday, May 6th.

    http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/screenfreew...

    On April 29-May 5, people around the country (and world!) will turn OFF TV, video and mobile games, and other screens they use for entertainment, and turn ON the world around them! Think, read, play, daydream, explore nature, enjoy family and friends--do all this and so much more when you spend 7 days unplugged.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  2. truthmod
    Administrator

    Today is my first day back online and in front of screens in a week. I recommend reevaluating your screen time to everyone. I didn't turn on the TV once, I didn't surf the internet (only looked up a couple things that were immediately necessary to what I was doing), didn't once check Facebook, and only checked my email twice a day.

    I also recommend the book "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" to everyone.

    http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing...

    I do believe all of our devices and the internet in general are contributing to an overall loss in the ability to focus and think meaningfully about our world. It goes both ways, but the structure and design of these devices and the current incarnation of the internet are mostly the product of corporations who's aim is to have distracted and malleable consumers.

    We are addicted to these machines and most people are not questioning it. They prey on our desire for connection and meaning. We are headed down a dark path.

    Posted 11 years ago #
  3. truthmod
    Administrator

    You’ll Never Learn!
    Students can’t resist multitasking, and it’s impairing their memory.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/s...

    Although the students had been told at the outset that they should “study something important, including homework, an upcoming examination or project, or reading a book for a course,” it wasn’t long before their attention drifted: Students’ “on-task behavior” started declining around the two-minute mark as they began responding to arriving texts or checking their Facebook feeds. By the time the 15 minutes were up, they had spent only about 65 percent of the observation period actually doing their schoolwork. Advertisement

    “We were amazed at how frequently they multitasked, even though they knew someone was watching,” Rosen says. “It really seems that they could not go for 15 minutes without engaging their devices,” adding, “It was kind of scary, actually.”

    ...

    But evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that when students multitask while doing schoolwork, their learning is far spottier and shallower than if the work had their full attention. They understand and remember less, and they have greater difficulty transferring their learning to new contexts. So detrimental is this practice that some researchers are proposing that a new prerequisite for academic and even professional success—the new marshmallow test of self-discipline—is the ability to resist a blinking inbox or a buzzing phone.

    Posted 11 years ago #

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