Both are important, in my opinion, because if you lack the knowledge in technology someone in your feild you has it will as aresult have the upperhand and be rewarded. However without the "people skills and social skills" and friendly attitude to people in general, that seems to be lost in most teenagers who are "addicted to texting, instant messaging, emailling, facebooking and myspacing, and the like all have to do with technology, will loss their own connections made in friendships and feel akward and indifferent around past close and best friends and will only be able to communivate through technology because they feel unable to communicate to that long distantance (in living area) cousin or that OMG long lost best frined you found on face book. In a book I read, which's name I don't remember, the procedure was 4 days without technology, no TV no computor, no Gameboy, Wii, Xbox, PlayStation, iPod, or anything for 4 whole days unlessyou had two people with you enjoying and enteracting with each other who were ot in your immeadiate family and 3 days (Friday, Saturday Sunday, Holidays and Vacations too) that technology was allowed to a certain extent no more than 8 hours spent on technology, spend some toime on the phone instead of texting there are house phones with standard rates too you know.... and so that's now what my family does. Its hard in the beggining but has helped us grow stronger.
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Is the Internet changing the way our brains work? That's the provocative question raised by UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small in his new book "iBRAIN: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind." His equally provocative answer: yes, it is.
All the Internet searching and text messaging has made millennial brains particularly adept at filtering information and making snap decisions, says Small. At the same time, the tech-savvy people he calls "digital natives" are less capable of reading faces or picking up on subtle gestures. As technology spreads, Small suggests, natural selection will favor these newly wired brains and older neural pathways will disappear, taking traditional communication skills with them.
There's some evidence to support Small's theory: fMRI studies have shown that the persistent use of technology strengthens certain brain-activity patterns. (In some users, Web surfing triggers reward pathways that have been linked to addiction.) But proof that such changes weaken other brain regions, or that these changes can be inherited, is lacking. So what's a digital native to do? Balance technology time with face time, says Small, to reap the cognitive benefits of modern technology while still preserving social skills.
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