Recent researchers have found that the blue-enriched light, that is built in to gadgets like TV’s smartphones, tablets and laptops. These type of technologies can take away from the body’s release of melatonin at night. Melatonin is an important hormone that contributes to the regulation of your internal clock, informing your body when it is dark outside and when you are sleepy. The blue light can disengage that process, making that extremely difficult for a person to maintain a normal sleep pattern. Losing out on your sleep has nnumerous of negative effects on your brain and body. If you are not getting your normal seven or more hours of sleep on average per night, you will suffer from increasingly bad moods, decreased focus at work and struggles
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In reality, you just end up performing all your duties even worse. Teens in particular are more distracted than ever. A 2012 Pew Research Center survey of more than 2,400 teachers found that majority of educators feel students are more distracted than the previous generations. About 87 percent of teachers agreed with the statement, today’s digital technologies and advances in those technologies are developing an easily distracted generation with an even shorter attention spans. While 64 percent agreed with the idea that today’s digital technologies actually do more to distract students than to help them academically. People of this generation are actually more inclined to forget what current day it is or where they even put their keys than people over the age of 55, according to a 2013 Trending Machine survey. In a press release conference for the survey, family and occupational therapist Patricia Gutentag called out technology as one of the main culprits: “This is a population that has grown up multitasking using technology, often compounded by lack of sleep, all of which results in high levels of forgetfulness,” she
In reality, you just end up performing all your duties even worse. Teens in particular are more distracted than ever. A 2012 Pew Research Center survey of more than 2,400 teachers found that majority of educators feel students are more distracted than the previous generations. About 87 percent of teachers agreed with the statement, today’s digital technologies and advances in those technologies are developing an easily distracted generation with an even shorter attention spans. While 64 percent agreed with the idea that today’s digital technologies actually do more to distract students than to help them academically. People of this generation are actually more inclined to forget what current day it is or where they even put their keys than people over the age of 55, according to a 2013 Trending Machine survey. In a press release conference for the survey, family and occupational therapist Patricia Gutentag called out technology as one of the main culprits: “This is a population that has grown up multitasking using technology, often compounded by lack of sleep, all of which results in high levels of forgetfulness,” she