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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Here’s an interesting article with some jewels of wisdom, too long to read perhaps. The previous clause proves the point of the article itself:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/can-students-who-are-constantly-on-their-devices-actually-learn?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=dea3bdfe0e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-dea3bdfe0e-68957125">https://aeon.co/essays/can-students-who-are-constantly-on-their-devices-actually-learn?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=dea3bdfe0e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-dea3bdfe0e-68957125</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Comment from the article: </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>An even bigger problem is the way that technology damages critical-thinking skills. Because knowledge is so ubiquitous, we don’t have to hone it as sharply and we don’t have to commit much to memory – we can just Google everything. Researchers from University College London <a href="http://late-dpedago.urv.cat/site_media/papers/425.pdf" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue;text-decoration:none'>report</span></a> that readers skim information, rarely reread, and engage in something called ‘power browsing’ rather than actual reading…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>I would like to hear BillW’s take on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>