Group Work/ television vs reading/ no electricity!

I had a wonderful day today. Got to school early to finish talking to various people and meet my biology group for our project. We were working on how caffeine intake affects our blood pressure. Our hypothesis was that caffeine intake will increase our blood pressure as other researches shows. So we all met, seven of us, at 9 a.m. to measure our blood pressure. Then we all dashed to a nearby coffee place to drink down 16 oz. of coffee. It was great to see all of us nonstop talking about various things and mostly about our future. I am sure the crowd in the coffee shop thought we all have been friends for such a long time even though we have only known each other for the past month! It was just great conversation, ideas, team work! Beautifully done.

I was reading an article about the affects of television and reading. Some quotes that stood out were:

A defense of Reading, by Marie Winn. The Plug-In Drug: Television, computers, and Family life, Penquin Books, 2002

“Television captures the imagination but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.”

“Television images do not go through a complex symbolic transformation. The mind does not have to decode and manipulate during the television experience. Perhaps this is why the visual images received directly from a television set are strong, stronger; it appears, than the images conjured up mentally while reading. But ultimately they satisfy less.”

“The television child has fewer opportunities for learning to sustain concentration than the “book” child of the past.”

Is a little embarrassing they keep referring to children but I know many adults have trouble turning the television off...me included!

Electricity went out for about two hours today and I went crazy! How much I depend on technology to keep me company. I was having lunch and watching television. I wanted to heat my food again but nope..no microwave. I thought let’s get on the internet…NO! I felt empty without my electricity..haha. I talked on my cell for awhile and got extremely bored..so I went shopping!! Holiday shopping has began!