There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.
Interpretation
Excessive digital screen time is negatively impacting children's attention and memory during reading.
Maryanne Wolf highlights the concern that overexposure to digital screens is altering the way children process information, particularly in their capacity to focus and remember what they read. This shift suggests that prolonged reading on digital devices can hinder their cognitive development, requiring parents and educators to be mindful of screen time and its effects on learning.
In practice
In a discussion on the impacts of technology on youth education.
Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.
In reading, we are both scientists and poets.
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
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