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 * Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction NYTimes.com**

//**Works Cited:**// Richtel, Matt. "Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction" //NYTimes.com//. New York Times, 21 Nov. 2010. Web. 16 Nov. 2011. 

//**Summary:**// Basically this article is biased as the adult spectrum of tecnology. This article states that us as a younger generation are unable to focus on one task because we are constantly multitasking. With the constant stream of information we as young people expose ourselves to we are constantly flipping back and forth between thing after thing so we lack the inability to focus on one specific task. This is what this passage is about.

//**Quotes:**// 1. According to Micheal Rich of Harvard Medical School,"[Teen] brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing."

2. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes. A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.” Says 17-year-old Vishal.

3. “He’s a kid caught between two worlds,” said Mr. Reilly, "one that is virtual and one with real-life demands."

//**Facts:**//

1. A risk for too much technology, mostly in young people, is that developing brains can become "more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks and less able to keep attention."

2. "Computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning."

3. The principal of Woodside High School David Reilly has pushed classes back an hour because students were showing up "blurry eyed" due to being up late on computers.

4. Neuroscientists have found that the use of these media affected boys brain waves and led to lower sleep quality.