Reading a book, article, or any other online source might seem like a great idea, but it doesn't become so great when you start getting all those distractions like pop-up advertisements. Having a pop-up ad or even just a piece of technology could be very tempting to distract yourself. Research has shown that “when there are many visual stimuli in front of you, only one or two things tend to activate your neurons, indicating that we are actually only focusing on one or two items at a time” (Tugent 655). Another form of distraction is emails, updates, and texts. Having these distractions and many others could be really terrible because the audience will not concentrate or understand properly. Very often, when audiences move from one task to another, they tend to be less creative and productive. Previous research has found that working on more than one thing can store information in the wrong place, cause long-term memory problems, reduce the gray matter in our brain, which affects muscle control, self-control, speech, emotions and the senses. perception. Even when it comes to technology-based education, students tend not to understand much and get less information from a website than from printed words, such as a book. A German study found that in most cases web browsers spend 10 seconds or less looking at a website. Technology
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