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TECHNOLOGY TODAY
   Life on the Virtual Frontier
        Kaitlyn McKeown
MULTITASKING
-Today’s society thrives on multitasking

-Multitasking does not work in school
EFFECTS OF MULTITASKING
- Research proves kids can’t do it all

- Our brain is trained by what we do
ADDICTIONS
- Korea has undergone a gaming addiction

- Intervention camps
EDUCATION
- Teaching with technology

- Improved student behaviour
ARE WE A DUMBER
             GENERATION?
- Spoken word gave way to the written word

- Written word gave way to the digital world
WHY IT’S GOOD TO USE
          TECHNOLOGY
- Gives older people a renewed reason to live

- Creates real life relations through gaming
VIRTUAL WORLDS
- Creating new realities

-Changing the ways of the workplace
VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES
           CHANGING US ?
- Distinction between virtual and real world becoming blurred

- Virtual experiences
WHAT’S IN STORE FOR THE
            FUTURE?
- Army Experience Centres

- Changing the ways of schools

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