A brain expert just said what no one wants to hear about screen learning.🤯

Steve Jobs (Apple) strictly limited and effectively banned his children's use of the iPad/iPhone at home. Jobs' own words "haven’t used it" and "we don’t allow the iPad in the home". Many tech executives in Silicon Valley have applied similar rules at home all while promoting devices publicly.

Have to argue the exceptions here. My son is Gen Alpha, has had multiple devices in his hand since he was 2 years old and has consistently performed between top 2% and top 5% in the nation because his mom and I don't fight him on how HE LEARNS. He also types 80wpm, self-taught himself coding and published his 1st Roblox game at 7yr old which he earns in game currency from to this day, 4yrs later. It's not the children or the devices... it's the TEACHERS refusal to evolve to how children learn and absorb information in THIS ERA.

I proctored my third grade grandchild for about 6 months during COVID lockdown. Much of the day was spent working problems in vocabulary, grammar and math presented as computer games. Once you mastered the level, you could proceed to the next. My grandchild is a "gamer," so much so that his parents have a timer where they can lock his access to the internet. He was so quick and competitive, he could try different answers until he hit the right one. Although he reached the highest levels, standardized testing showed he had not truly comprehended.

Sweden is investing over €100 million (roughly 1.1 billion SEK) to bring physical, printed textbooks back into classrooms, aiming to reverse a decline in reading literacy and reduce excessive screen time. Also via @predict_addict Not just Sweden, Denmark and Norway as well. All these nations have issued tablets to schoolchildren over a decade ago only to see attention spans and learning to collapse.

Short form algorithm feed content is incredibly unhealthy for everyone’s mental bandwidth, but in particular is terrible for kids. Get your kids into reading young with fiction if you can. Or anything that will flex their brain in regard to sustained attention and they enjoy.

This reminds me of a school that hyped getting computers . . I found out that the students weren't learning programming but just playing games and was used basically as a babysitter.

This is why I have started taking my Calc quizzes during my 1-hour outdoor cardio. I do whole problems in my head, only jotting down a key term here or there to remember. It's not as easy, I get more answers wrong, but I can tell my understanding is improving.

Blaming tech alone lets curriculum reformers off the hook. Blaming curriculum alone lets districts keep shoveling screens at kids as a substitute for teaching. Good teachers priceless. Good curriculum priceless. Teaching kids how leveraging tech is priceless. Stop teaching them what to think. Teach them how to think. Don’t know why we need hearings. Everyone knows the problem. Indoctrination is not learning.

Another huge issue across the board is comprehension. Why are comprehension rates so low they ask? Many students struggle to understand what they have just read. What’s going on here ??? Again. The transition from the filing part of your brain into the deeper levels of retention and meaning have not happened. Why, they ask? Well. When you skim over something to find an answer you don’t learn. When answers are given to you at the touch of a finger tip -you don’t develop the depth and breadth of the whole process of learning!! It’s pretty understandable what’s going on here when you look at what’s actually happening in the classroom and with tech. But. You have to have people who want to address the issue with tech companies to come up with real strategies to fix the problems-instead of blaming teachers and not ignore it.

One has to explore the creativity of Japanese elementary learning. It’s totally amazing with great results. Common courtesy, common decency, and common sense definitely create cohesion to work efficiently collectively: from cleaning their classroom to growing food to learning survival skills, etc. They will become efficient, productive young adults. It’s better to become we young adults than me.

It’s both the 1 to 1 Chromebooks used at school and the grip that smartphones have on students. See it every day in my middle school classroom. Also, see how students who gravitate to books, actual books, and read often read, write and focus much better than their peers.

Total nonsense. Total BS! It could simply be that when technology entered schools is the same time we stopped enforcing proper discipline in schools. Screens are not the problem.

What if all this is a combination of various factors, such as environmental toxins, vaccines, excessive phone usage, and so on? I know several people who suddenly lost significant cognitive abilities, and I’m not referring to subjective experiences. These losses were objectively and clearly noticeable.

@grose_gordon This is a spiritual judgment by God because of sin in this nation. Yes,the generation born in late 90’s to 2012- ages 14 to almost 30 CANNOT and do not mature. Their education and mentality is tiktok,FB,snapchat,not learning how to develop,not history,science,etc from experts

There is more to it than whether or not a screen is used; it is the learning environment itself. Kids are not being taught how to learn, to know a subject. They are being taught to find key facts and memorize them, and to do that, they skim. They are not needing to put an engine back together, they only need to recite the year and size of the engine.

incorrect premises, 1) Schools are not the same. They stopped teaching intellectual & critical thinking and started teaching them to reason with their emotions 2) Younger Gen X & Gen Y both had screen learning Gen Z performance-impairment phenomenon may be partially driven by digital attentional restructuring increased cognitive load, and psychosocial stressors, but THOSE aspects are driven by an emphasis on sorting by others (getting one's feelings of value from what others think instead of their own self), thinking structure promoted by leftists (which are compromise 80% of Universities) instead of balanced ideology taught by a variety of mentalities

@DrJohnAKing He is leaving out the fact teachers must teach to a test. Our problem has nothing to do with screens. It has to do with corruption. •

This is not total nonsense. There is a journal of people who have done this, and videos are littered with stories of the progress made when tech gadgets are taken from kids for a longer period. These accounts show what happens when kids focus on traditional educational materials like boards, books, pens, and paper compared to what it was like when they were learning with digital platforms. Too much exposure to these technologies has clear effects on these kids; it should be moderated or thoroughly examined regarding how they are used in schools. We are seeing that while digital tools promise efficiency, they often come at the cost of deep focus and tactile engagement. By returning to physical materials, we allow children's minds to slow down and truly absorb information rather than just scrolling through it. The goal isn't to be anti-tech, but to ensure that the human element of learning isn't being replaced by a screen.

Tools like dictionaries let kids focus on ideas instead of mechanics—but only if the goal shifts from rote spelling to real reasoning. Same with ed-tech: give students powerful tools and they'll use them. The issue isn't the tech itself, but how it's deployed (often encouraging skimming and distraction over deep effort) and what we measure. Credentialism pushes schools toward easy metrics that reward surface performance. Better approach: build strong foundational attention and comprehension first (paper can help here), then teach deliberate tool use for higher-order curiosity and synthesis. Tech and education need to live in harmony not competition.

Incorrect, the correlation is not about a digital interface. It's how the digital interface is used. We have too many idiot "experts" now a days because they just gloss over the high level numbers without doing the deep dive.

Cognitively sharper kids: We want it but the Left doesn't. The Left needs cognitive dunces, and we see them all around us. I believe this was the plan.

There IS research that shows that the act of turning a page helps to commit information to memory better than clicking or swiping. I fought our kids’ district (and lost) when they went to all digital science text books over a decade ago. We knew better- but they did it anyway.

Well I noticed that my father still being 60 does regular calculation in his head whereas i have to use either a calculator or at least a pen and paper. He remembers tons of numbers from 30 years ago but I know only a handful numbers. I have had more education than him.

What a moron, it's not the screens it's the teachers that play a video or an app and consider there day done. For teachers that actually teach the technology is an asset for those that don't it's a gimmick to pretend they work.

Hmm, do text books have games and ads and distractions in the pages? Nope! History,philosophy,science text books ( books in general) takes effort to research good ones from bad ones,false info and reading takes concentration. This generation that lives on 24 hr distraction( click,click,click,email,social media,tiktok,fb,memes,pranks, comedy,every type of nonsense their brains are absorbing).. it is no surprise why they have not maturely deceloped in many areas of life.they live in an artificial reality carnival

Totally agree—screens deliver passive info that skips the real learning loop. Anat Baniel’s Nine Essentials, from her work with Feldenkrais, flip that: ‘When we bring attention to what we feel as we move, the brain immediately starts building billions of new neurological connections that usher in changes, learning, and transformation.’ Slow, subtle, varied movement with awareness turns on the learning switch. Doidge’s The Brain That Changes Itself shows Feldenkrais in action—kids and adults rewiring brains through mindful movement, not repetition. Curriculum matters, but without these tactile basics, brains stay stuck.

@jeepgirlfreedom I doubt being the most racially diverse generation has anything to do with it. It’s definitely not having a bunch of low IQ third worlders, incapable of thinking, filling that generation. It’s probably screens.

There are so many things wrong with the education system. He could’ve named so many things from government over reach to unrealistic expectations, and obsession with diagnostics. And he went with, oh this is the internets fault. Sure buddy. That’s not an agenda on your tongue. It’s pure stupidity.

It is LITERALLY common core curriculum that is making kids dumber. It "teaches" them to not be able to think & removes all forms of critical thinking. It's not the screens, it's teachers & what they are "teaching", which actually reveals they are NOT teaching anything anymore.

It's true! I have seen it in our own #GrandKids... They struggle to get started in life... I have no way to help because they can't seem to think beyond the moment to do goal setting!

The loss of handwriting seems to be the elephant in the room, imho.

Classic mistaking of correlation for causation. What about tech usage outside of school (e.g., social media, games, etc.) rather than ed-tech in school as a cause? What about concomitant reduction in socializing and exercise? Changes in diet, sociological changes, etc.?

Finally, after decades of yelling to the universe, someone has notice and picked up on the resonance It's seeing that pre-adults (everyone under 35 years of age) who entrains their neurology on a digital device is in danger of becoming less than they could ever be

Humans are not robots, and they are not of the species Homo-Economicus, to be programmed to perform the work that the owning class dictates. We've gone far down this path, and the Tech Bros like it. Our social media lets them profit from it.

I’ve seen this first hand myself, teaching electronics to kids. I developed a comic book series to teach, and incurred the costs of printing these books because I had done some of my own basic research between printed artifacts vs digital only. Over a 7 years period, I’ve seen the decline in attention, curiosity and learning capabilities amongst the students in my sessions. I attributed this noticeable decline in increased usage of digital devices over that period. Sad!!