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Does the "F" in Facebook stand for an "F" in school? A new study says that college students who are on Facebook while studying or doing homework wind up getting 20 percent lower grades than students who don’t have the social networking site in visual range, or even running in the background on their computers or mobile phones.
The study, reported in the Daily Mail of Britain, was done by Netherlands psychologist Paul A. Kirschnera of the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies at the Open University of the Netherlands, and Aryn C. Karpinskib of Ohio State University. It will be published in the… Continue reading: Facebook use can lower grades by 20 percent, study says – Technology & science – Tech and gadgets – Back to School – msnbc.com
On a related note, see Ev Williams: Twitter Will Actually Help Information Overload
Mobile use of Twitter has climbed by more than 60 percent since April, when the company introduced its official iPhone client, Twitter CEO Ev Williams said in a status update posted to the company’s blog. The Twitter founder also said that the microblogging service has 145 million registered users, up almost 40 percent from the number it had four months ago.
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A timely attention management reality check
When you really want to concentrate, do you need a quiet room with no distractions, or does playing loud music help you focus? Can you hold a conversation while typing? Can you read blogs and write e-mail while watching TV? I do. And I must. For with all the information available these days, and my personal unwillingness to miss out on conversations or media consumption, I’ve done more than embrace what many call "continuous partial attention". Instead, I believe I have a goal of achieving "continuous parallel attention", whereby no single task is given primary focus, but instead, multiple tasks gain the same focus.
louisgray.com: Continuous Parallel… Continue reading: louisgray.com: Continuous Parallel Attention: My New Reality
Consistent with Eric Schmidt’s recent comments: “’I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,’ he elaborates. ‘They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.’"
“Important” messages are judged to be the most significant, and sit at the top of your Gmail window. Next is the “starred” area, the messages you say are important. Finally, “everything else” includes those messages that can probably be dealt with later, or completely ignored — the ones that aren’t quite spam, but don’t need to clutter up your screen or your brain right now.
Keith Coleman, Google’s product management director, told me in an interview that Google has… Continue reading: Google Offers Respite From Inbox Overload – NYTimes.com
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