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Tag: distraction
Distraction – Good or Bad?
Fascinating essay on distraction. Why does it happen? Is it always bad? What, if anything, should we do about it?
Your attention, please
Will the ban on screen-based devices in the audience be the most ground-shaking innovation to come out of this week’s @TEDGlobal event in London?
Switch off
Surprise, surprise: children do better in schools that ban mobile phones.
Old-school books
Reading to toddlers with real books seems to foster richer learning than does reading with e-readers or tablets.
Phone-free driving
Check out Werner Herzog’s film on the perils + folly of texting while driving. Powerful, poignant + oddly beautiful.
Smartphones, silly people
A useful reminder of how smartphones can make us less smart. If we don’t use them wisely…