A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by andrei_says_ on Saturday October 27, 2018 @01:29AM (#18314491)

Screen time focuses the senses on a small square and demobilizes the body while putting the brain in a comfortably numb, trance-like state.

It robs a child’s body and brain from developing social and motor skills in a 3D world. Time spent in the trance state is habit forming and is in general stolen from time spent exploring the world, and letting the brain learn from full bandwidth experiences.

So yes, It is the screen.

Children’s real life unstructured full-bandwidth play is learning on steroids. All systems engaged, constant observation, endless questions, simulations etc. think social simulations, physical and motor skills challenges, puzzles. It takes life to prepare human brains for life.

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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by closeparen on Sunday October 28, 2018 @12:53AM (#18319240)

Can't you say the same thing about a book?

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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by 80mph on Sunday October 28, 2018 @04:23AM (#18319664)

I would say no. Reading involves more use of one's imagination. Certainly, there are books that can easily put me to sleep after a few sentences. But when I'm reading my favorite genre (mysteries), my imagination is constantly at work. I cast the characters in my head using real-life actors and actresses, and a movie begins playing in my mind. That's the power of a good author.

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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by georgeappiah on Friday November 02, 2018 @01:19AM (#18360868)

If you'd say "no" to reading a book because it engages more use of one's imagination, how is reading a dead tree book different from reading an ebook on screen? The latter is still lumped together gaming and all other uses as "screen time."

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