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Archive for October 2nd, 2006

Multitasking may harm memory

Posted in Social commentary, Tech Commentary on October 2, 2006 | 2 Comments »

again from www.abcnews.com:
 MULTITASKING CAN HARM MEMORY People who learn something new while multitasking are less able to recall what they’ve learned later on, researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles found in a new study. They tested subjects on a simple memory task while at the same time asking them to count the [...]

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TV hurts school performance for kids – sometimes news is too obvious

Posted in Social commentary, Tech Commentary on October 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

From www.abcnews.com:
TV HURTS KIDS’ SCHOOL PERFORMANCE A new study of mostly white children in the northeastern United States finds that increased time watching TV on weekdays is associated with poorer performance in school. For example, kids who were not allowed to watch TV or movies on school days were about half as likely to say [...]

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