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# 2020/9/30 Magazine English Study
## 1. [Can't put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains — and lives](https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/surprising-ways-smartphones-affect-our-brains-our-lives-ncna947566)
### A. markdown

smartphones--> abominable, 3/4 in the US have, scroll 2,600times/day

**discuss impacts of our phone:**
1. dinner disruption
2. distracted drivers
3. **Most important**
-->vulnerable to mental changes, like harder to think deeply, attentively, and conceptually.

**Explain and problems in modern society:**
1. attractive--> scores got lower on the test of short-term memory and problem solving.

2. human decency-->inhitbit people from offering help to others, reduce the conversation between people, (maybe)lose our ability to read emotions or some other social skills.

3. mental health problems--> especially among teens and young adults began skyrocketing.

4. Lack of turst of understanding-->divde the society, always seek certain information, always stay in our echo chamber. Facebook, instagram, twitter also reinforce these happened too.

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## 2.[ Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media?fbclid=IwAR1UrTMLfKf5xaoF7DZMXg9ijDFmavMLum8CN0bnCH4PKL1q8p5PkF6uzuo)

### A. markdown

Young people nowadays:
-- teens are turning back on the technology
-- young(18~24) change their attitude toward social media-->affect GenZ(born after 1995)
-- older generation(45+) embrace the social media
-- reasons that the younger left:
1. dishonest --> competition for who can appear the happiest
2. bullies --> online bullying
3. privacy --> aware of how improtant the privacy is, and not know a person by just their pics or posts.

-- cause anxiesties:
1. fear of missing out on something
2. fear of losing contact with friends

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## 3. [Should College Professors Give 'Tech Breaks' In Class?](https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/10/19/558751178/should-college-professors-give-tech-breaks-in-class)
### A. markdown

Psychology Professor Rosen --> 1-min tech break, and take a break every 15mins

distraction(students) --> immature prefrontal cortex(Tech companies are doing great on this), about 10~15mins, students would get nervous and check their phone.

distractors --> **any technology that involves communucation**(social media, texting, email. etc.)

author experience:
seminar --> took note by hand instead of typing on the laptop, didn't see was a group of easily distracted students or students enslaved by technology

author sum up:
Digital natives' brains are still maturing --> sometime use inappropriately, try to convey to students that we all should focus attention and participation.