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Greenfield: IT culture is changing children's brains
2006-04-20 23:43:09Children are spending so much time watching electronic media that it is changing the way they think, Baroness Susan Greenfield, neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, told the House of Lords today.
She also warned of the dangers of "medicating the classroom" with drugs such as Ritalin.
The crossbench peer, who is director of Oxford University's Institute for the Future of the Mind, urged the government to investigate the effects of new developments in IT and mind-altering drugs rather than "stumbling" into new technologies....
Source: http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1757811,00.html
Life in Prison
2006-04-18 13:49:33The BBC News webiste have a fantastic "Prison Tour" letting you see through a series of photographs what prison life would be like: fron the initial 'welcome' to general life and worship.
Relevance
OCR: AS - Zimbardo study; A2 - Crime module.
