A part that intrigued me, was the difference in the amout of words talked an hour. 2,153 in socioeconomic homes, 1,251 in working class and only 616 in houses where parents were on welfare. I think the number speak for themselves in how different one household can be from the other. As it said earlier 'parents who supply a language-rich enviroment for their children help them develop a wide vocabulary'. So this means that this limitation of word spoken must have an effect on the way this child develops. Also how good are the conversations? Are the parents responding to the children or just nodding their head and paying no attention.'Quantity and quality' this is what I think is the main factor to a child's development in language.
One thing that keeps coming up in all these reports we read in class, is that the use of technology builds stress. Like while we multitask we actuall finding it hard to pay attention and experience more stress. Yet I don't find multitasking more stressful and find it more productive. Yet I can conur that yes multitasking does make me more forgetful. Juggling many things at once makes me forget about the other little this. Like right now I am on facebook and doing this =D and changing from one page to the other. I have to keep reading the paragraph I just wrote and start writing again. Cause I keep forgetting what I just wrote, and therefore more time consuming and may not me as productive. But one tends to do it anyway.
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Interesting points raised Jamie, it does make you think of how distracted people can be when they are in the technological zone. It is good to put your own use of technology under the microscope too.
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