Instead of Pulling Out Your Phone, Let Your Mind Wander – Greater Good Magazine
Why would this be? The students didn’t report on their actual thoughts, so it’s hard to know exactly where their… read more
Constant Companion: A Week in the Life of a Young Person’s Smartphone Use – Common Sense
Our research aimed to address the following questions: How much time are preadolescents and adolescents spending on their smartphones? Which… read more
Big Tech Is Watching You as You Drive – The New Republic
Now, we’re letting them load our vehicles with new technologies so they can get their own cut of the profits… read more
‘We are killing people’: How technology has made your car ‘a candy store of distraction’ – LATimes via Yahoo! Finance
Cognitive psychologist David Strayer was among those called in to help the Army with its Apache problem. Since then, he… read more
How to reduce digital distractions: Advice from medieval monks – Aeon
A more advanced method for concentrating was to build elaborate mental structures in the course of reading and thinking. Nuns,… read more
The attention economy is corrupting the classroom – Stanford Daily
Although technological distractions appear trivial, small behaviors of distracted learning and disrespect toward speakers enacted on a large scale make… read more