[Tasl] office depot teacher appreciation/article on stoooopid

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i know we all hate this but wanted to share with all information about office depot teacher appreciation date.  here in johnson city will be saturday august 2 from 9am - 11am..
 
for other places, just go to
 
http://www.mystarteacher.com/memberbenefit/hottopics.asp
 
also an interesting article...
Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks
The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate
On Wednesday I received 72 e-mails, not counting junk, and only two text messages. It was a quiet day but, then again, I’m not including the telephone calls. I’m also not including the deafening and pointless announcements on a train journey to Wakefield – use a screen, jerks – the piercingly loud telephone conversations of unsocialised adults and the screaming of untamed brats. And, come to think of it, why not include the junk e-mails? They also interrupt. There were 38. Oh and I’d better throw in the 400-odd news alerts that I receive from all the websites I monitor via my iPhone. 
I was – the irony! – trying to read a book called Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson. Crushed in my train, I had become the embodiment of T S Eliot’s great summary of the modern predicament: “Distracted from distraction by distraction”. This is, you might think, a pretty standard, vaguely comic vignette of modern life – man harassed by self-inflicted technology. And so it is. We’re all distracted, we’re all interrupted. How foolish we are! But, listen carefully, it’s killing me and it’s killing you. 
 
FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE..
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4362950.ece

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