We, as a culture, are not only engaged in screens most of the day, but we are also often using multiple screens at the same time.
In Screenagers, Dr. Dimitri Christakis, Director of Child Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital, says:
"The brain isn’t actually capable of multitasking. In fact, your brain oscillates attention from task 1 to task 2. The young nimble adolescent brain can oscillate back and forth very quickly, but it comes at a cost. One study looked at children and had them watch either a very rapidly-sequenced tv program or a slowly sequenced program or play with crayons and then tested right afterward their cognitive ability and found that the kids who watched the rapidly-paced program performed more poorly than the other two. Overstimulation tires the brain and it tends to function not as well."
Our kids are very accustomed to having several screens out at once. I notice when my family watches a movie at home that they have their phones out and go will go back and forth between screens.
Let's talk about the multi-screen phenomenon for Tech Talk Tuesday:
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We, as a culture, are not only engaged in screens most of the day, but we are also often using multiple screens at the same time.
In Screenagers, Dr. Dimitri Christakis, Director of Child Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital, says:
"The brain isn’t actually capable of multitasking. In fact, your brain oscillates attention from task 1 to task 2. The young nimble adolescent brain can oscillate back and forth very quickly, but it comes at a cost. One study looked at children and had them watch either a very rapidly-sequenced tv program or a slowly sequenced program or play with crayons and then tested right afterward their cognitive ability and found that the kids who watched the rapidly-paced program performed more poorly than the other two. Overstimulation tires the brain and it tends to function not as well."
Our kids are very accustomed to having several screens out at once. I notice when my family watches a movie at home that they have their phones out and go will go back and forth between screens.
Let's talk about the multi-screen phenomenon for Tech Talk Tuesday:
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We, as a culture, are not only engaged in screens most of the day, but we are also often using multiple screens at the same time.
In Screenagers, Dr. Dimitri Christakis, Director of Child Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital, says:
"The brain isn’t actually capable of multitasking. In fact, your brain oscillates attention from task 1 to task 2. The young nimble adolescent brain can oscillate back and forth very quickly, but it comes at a cost. One study looked at children and had them watch either a very rapidly-sequenced tv program or a slowly sequenced program or play with crayons and then tested right afterward their cognitive ability and found that the kids who watched the rapidly-paced program performed more poorly than the other two. Overstimulation tires the brain and it tends to function not as well."
Our kids are very accustomed to having several screens out at once. I notice when my family watches a movie at home that they have their phones out and go will go back and forth between screens.
Let's talk about the multi-screen phenomenon for Tech Talk Tuesday:
Photo by casenbina/iStock / Getty Images
As well as our weekly blog, we publish videos like this one every week on the Screenagers YouTube channel
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