Michele Pasin / Quotes

Children's screen time linked to cognition

Children aged eight to 11 who used screens for fun for less than two hours a day performed better in tests of mental ability, a study found.

Combining this with nine to 11 hours of sleep a night was found to be best for performance.

Researchers said more work was now needed to better understand the effects of different types of screen use.

However, they acknowledge that their observational study shows only an association between screen time and cognition and cannot prove a causal link.

And it did not look at how children were using their screen time, be it to watch television, play videogames or use social media.

Saved 4 January 2019 / www.bbc.com ↗

#screen-time #social-media #television #fun

Pleasure as a center wastes a life

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #pleasure #fun #television #life

Screens do not make us passive

The route from here to this dystopia seems very unclear. Greenfield bases her worries on the idea that screen culture is essentially ‘sensational’, that it…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #screen-time #technology #television #critique

TV damages toddlers' attention spans

TV also poisons attention spans and the ability to focus, a classic hallmark of executive function. For each additional hour of TV watched by a child under…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #television #attention #babies #screen-time

Teaching computer science

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts…

Epigrams On Programming #fun #disciplines #thought #children

Brain plasticity and screen culture

‘Although most neuroscientists are familiar with the concept of what we call plasticity,’ she told me, ‘it might be that most people haven’t really grasped…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #brain #screen-time #technology #environment

La solitudine non è un albero nella pianura

La stessa proliferazione di chat e Facebook di varia natura afferisce a quest’ansia comunicativa un po’ effimera, capace tuttavia di evitare i buchi solitari…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #solitude #social-media #poetry #communication