Re: Gen: Libraries=Bookstores?

[William Wells <wcwells@IX.NETCOM.COM>]

I also saw something (can't remember where, but that's typical) about how
they did brain scans and stress showed up in the brain.  Guess where it was
most prominent.....the part of the brain that controls short term memory.


Deena Wells
K-12 Media Specialist
Talawanda City Schools
Oxford, OH
wcwells@ix.netcom.com
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From: Franziska Turrell <Lib/Media@FC.MCPS.K12.MD.US>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Date: Monday, March 09, 1998 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Gen: Libraries=Bookstores?


>Very true.  I recently read an article about Information Overload
>Stress Syndrome. . . something like that.  It talked about how often we
>go into a room for something, and when we get there we can't remember
>why we're there.  Or get halfway home from work and realize we left
>some important papers at work, papers that you thought about all day
>taking home.  The article poined out that it is due to this information
>overload--so much stuff to assimilate, file, keep, discard in our
>brains that some of it is lost.  Because of increased technology
>available to just about everyone, we are constantly being fed tons of
>information.  Much of this information is totally trivial and
>unnecessary--but we need to learn how to seperate the trivial from the
>important, since there is much of that out there too.  And teach the
>kids how to do the same.  Now there's a job!
>Frannie T.
>Media Assistant--Lake Seneca ES
>Germantown, MD
>Franziska_Turrell@fc.mcps.k12.md.us,i
>
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