January 27th, 2008
Distractions Hurt Your Brain
You may have guessed it but reading the evidence gives folks the shakes.
The average U.S. teenager spends 6 ½ hours daily listening to music,
messaging his/her friends, viewing TV, playing videos-games and surfing the web.
Add the recent research students daydream 30% of their waking hours, and
it is hard not to wonder how they are going to graduate and survive on their own.
Fact: multitasking and a noisy environment really hurt your 3-pound coconut.
Sure, kids can learn with blasting sound tracks in the background, but the
information they acquire flitters away in 24 hours. Later, when students
want to use the knowledge or are tested, only a wispy ghost remains.