Daniel Ackerman, a teacher at the Bronx school where students are able to use laptops in class, told Front Line that students would be multitasking while doing school work instead of focusing fully on their work. ... Trying to learn while on your laptop, phone, or listening to music will always be less productive than trying to learn without any of these distractions. ...
Our Need for Efficiency Moving forward, our need to have everything right away is a clear product of the integration of smartphones and laptops into our lifestyle. ... When we spend more time on our phones and laptops, we begin to develop attention disorders such as ADHD. ...
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has become an ever expanding. CALL was created to help people learn different languages with the use of computers. It came about in the 1960's before much was known about how we learn different languages. I think this seemed like a good idea at the time, b...
Most people of our era have questioned the past. How did they do that? Why didn't they invent that then? With answering these questions we begin to understand that things weren't as easy as they are now. They didn't have backpacks on wheels or cellphones that hold within them almost every piece of y...
We know that the WWW and Internet have had a tremendous effect on our lives, the United States and the World economy. As professionals in the field of technology, we are constantly seeing areas of society that are being changed, exonerated or improved in some way as a result of it. Currently at for...
As people sit in their homes, comfortably relaxing in their big lazy boy searching the web on their laptop, or to those multiple college students surfing the web for research or new Netflix series -- as great as the "world at the tip of the fingers " is, it is always important to know when to get off, or take a break from the bright light....
There are many factors that play in to how you feel about yourself. From the little things such as the toys you played with when you were little, to the clothes you wear, how much of this can actually effect you? The many possible outcomes of a positive or negative self-image can overall determine a...
