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Does Dependence on Technology Making Us Brainless and Unintelligent? Part One

Look a Squirrel!
Look a Squirrel!

Mobile devices, social media, and streaming are all the rage. But what effect does all that tech really have on your brain?

This is Your Brain on Tech:

  • “Look! A squirrel!” Tech is a distraction. Take yourself for example… You’re on tech – probably logged on to check the weather – then noticed you had some new emails… Which reminded you of your Facebook friend whose car was stolen… And now you’re reading GPS trivia about how tech melts your brain. Think you’re multi-tasking? Nope. You’re just doing all 10 activities poorly.
  • “Has anyone seen my post-its?” Tech butts into what you’re doing, diverting working memory before it is transferred into long-term memory and stored. It also overloads your working memory, causing you to lose some of the “old stuff” as your continued Googling dumps yet more information into your brain.

“I’m not lazy; I’d just prefer to Google it.” People used to retain vast amounts of knowledge, which they could pull-up and recite on demand. Today’s tech, however, has limited this drive, which is instead outsourced to tech to handle.

Come back and visit us on Wednesday for the rest of this article.

 

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Easy Collaboration with Google Drive.

Nancy McCord
Nancy McCord – our resident expert on all things digital.

Written instructions to match our Try It Friday video on Google Drive collaboration.

To get started you’ll want to have a Google account and download Google Drive. https://www.google.com/drive/download/. Then follow the steps to install Google Drive. On installation, Google will add a link to Google Drive in your File Tree accessed through Windows Explorer.

You can also visit and view all Google Drive files online as well.

To start collaboration, load a file or photos into a folder in your Google Drive on your desktop that you want to share. Then go to your Google Drive account online.

Right click on the folder or file and then add an email address (must also be a Google account) to share the file. Give this new person rights to edit or just view the files.

The person you are sharing with will receive and email invitation. If they have Google Drive, this new file will now appear in their shared folder in Google Drive. If they do not have Google Drive, they will want to download the application as well unless they only want online access.

Once they accept to view the file for you to see any change they make and for them to see the file on their desktop offline, they need to drag the shared folder or file into their own “My Drive” folder in Google Drive.

Once that important step is done, any change they make you will be able to see. Plus by adding it to their own My Drive folder, now the file is downloaded to their own file tree and into the Google Drive folder on their desktop.

It’s super fast and easy to collaborate on files.

What could you do with Google Drive collaboration?

  1. Collaborate with teams.
  2. Share photos with college students away from home.
  3. Share files and folders with family members.
  4. Share files, photos, and folders with friends.
  5. Plan your next family reunion and keep everyone in the loop.

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