Maybe attention spans are not becoming poor, just concentrated. Maybe the future doesn't require long attention spans. Maybe we are learning to be more concise, precise, succinct. ??
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11 Mar 15
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Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned.
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Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
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More than 150million use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, share photographs and videos and post regular updates of their movements and thoughts.
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01 Feb 15
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'My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.'
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Educational psychologist Jane Healy believes children should be kept away from computer games until they are seven. Most games only trigger the 'flight or fight' region of the brain, rather than the vital areas responsible for reasoning.
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26 Jan 15
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Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist
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Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned.
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rufusgordoniiiThey are melting are brains max capacity gauges.
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Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned.
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Facebook, Twitter and Bebo
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shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred
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disturbing
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claims from neuroscientist Susan Greenfield
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millions whose social lives depend on logging on
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each day.
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More than 150million use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, share photographs and videos and post regular updates of their movements and thoughts.
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further six million have signed up to Twitter, the 'micro-blogging' service that lets users circulate text messages about themselves.
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while the sites are popular - and extremely profitable
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growing number of psychologists
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doing more harm than good
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neuroscientists
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omputer games and fast-paced TV shows were also a factor, she said.
'We know how small babies need constant reassurance that they exist,' she told the Mail yesterday.
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'My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.'
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comments echoed those she made during a House of Lords debate earlier this month.
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exposure to computer games, instant messaging, chat rooms and social networking sites could leave a generation with poor attention spans.
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'I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf,' she said.
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Greenfield told the Lords a teacher of 30 years had told her she had noticed a sharp decline in the ability of her pupils to understand others.
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t is hard to see how living this way on a daily basis will not result in brains
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minds,
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different from those of previous generations,' she said.
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autistic people, who usually find it hard to communicate, were particularly comfortable using computers
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we do not know whether the current increase in autism is due more to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism, or whether it can - if there is a true increase - be in any way linked to an increased prevalence among people of spending time in screen relationships. Surely it is a point worth considering,' she added.
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argued that digital technology is changing the way we think. They point out that students no longer need to plan essays before starting to write - thanks to word processors they can edit as they go along
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Psychologists
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Satellite navigation systems have negated the need to decipher maps.
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found teenagers now spend seven-and-a-half hours a day in front of a screen.
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believes children should be kept away from computer games until they are seven. Most games only trigger the 'flight or fight' region of the brain, rather than the vital areas responsible for reasoning.
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author of Toxic Childhood, said: 'We are seeing children's brain development damaged because they don't engage in the activity they have engaged in for millennia.
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'I'm not against technology and computers. But before they start social networking, they need to learn to make real relationships with people.'
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Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
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Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
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Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford University neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, believes repeated exposure could effectively 'rewire' the brain.
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exposure to computer games, instant messaging, chat rooms and social networking sites could leave a generation with poor attention spans.
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'I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf,' she said.
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Sue Palmer, author of Toxic Childhood, said: 'We are seeing children's brain development damaged because they don't engage in the activity they have engaged in for millennia.
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But before they start social networking, they need to learn to make real relationships with people.'
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We know how small babies need constant reassurance that they exist,' she told the Mail yesterday.
'My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.'
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I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf,' she said
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She pointed out that autistic people, who usually find it hard to communicate, were particularly comfortable using computers.
'Of course, we do not know whether the current increase in autism is due more to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism, or whether it can - if there is a true increase - be in any way linked to an increased prevalence among people of spending time in screen relationships. Surely it is a point worth considering,' she added.
Psychologists have also argued that digital technology is changing the way we think. They point out that students no longer need to plan essays before starting to write - thanks to word processors they can edit as they go along. Satellite navigation systems have negated the need to decipher maps.
A study by the Broadcaster Audience Research Board found teenagers now spend seven-and-a-half hours a day in front of a screen
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Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford University neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, believes repeated exposure could effectively 'rewire' the brain.
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Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford University neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, believes repeated exposure could effectively 'rewire' the brain.
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Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford University neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, believes repeated exposure could effectively 'rewire' the brain.
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10 Aug 11
Vanessa Washingtonnegatives
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Serge Corbeil"Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist"
L'utilisation des réseaux sociaux endommagerait le cerveau des jeunes enfants, selon des éminents neurologues.
David Derbyshiresocialnetworking facebook children neuroscience brain activité-A 2-étoiles
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Xiaoxi JinDaily Mail.April 24, 2009
More and more children started to use online social networking like twitter, facebook, my space and etc. People are wondering is it a good thing for our children start to use online social network when they are young? The answer seems to be no. Study discovered that the children who use social network a lot has more harm on their brain. Also, children who use online networking a lot are not good at social stuff in their real life. As adult, we need to help them learn how to social with the people around them before they start using online social network. -
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'My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.'
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11 Apr 11
Brittaney JuarezArticle discussing the negative and potentially harmful effects that social networking may have on young children and their brain development. Used for Contemporary Issue Project.
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shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred
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sharp decline in the ability of her pupils to understand others
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kept away from computer games until they are seven
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Diana MerrittGoing along with the Shallow's argument about our changing ability to focus and shortening attention spans, this article addresses that, as well as communication problems.
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Andra SeecharanThis site has a few harmfull effects of social networking on childern.
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Sashti LalBachanthe ways in which social websites can harm children`s brain.
the harms of social networks on childrens` mind lack of communication skills games as a factor study based on observation
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Saheeda NazirSocial websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist.
Psychologists say digital technology is changing the way we think
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Buffalo EDC601(from Mark Wooten) "a negative sounding article that has some valid arguments as well as some 'giant leaps' and tenuous assumptions" This is a great article to take up in class discussions in graduate classes or in professional development. The data need
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But while the sites are popular - and extremely profitable - a growing number of psychologists and neuroscientists believe they may be doing more harm than good.
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KM Andersonfrom his website: could use as article of the week
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Christie MitchellSocial networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned.
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Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
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The claims from neuroscientist Susan Greenfield
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Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford University neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, believes repeated exposure could effectively 'rewire' the brain.
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She pointed out that autistic people, who usually find it hard to communicate, were particularly comfortable using computers.
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Psychologists have also argued that digital technology is changing the way we think. They point out that students no longer need to plan essays before starting to write - thanks to word processors they can edit as they go along. Satellite navigation systems have negated the need to decipher maps
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Educational psychologist Jane Healy believes children should be kept away from computer games until they are seven. Most games only trigger the 'flight or fight' region of the brain, rather than the vital areas responsible for reasoning.
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michael chalkLast night at the Stephen Downes talk, people raised the spectre of brain damage from social networking sites, claiming that this neuroscientist (Susan Greenfield) has done research showing adverse effects on brain plasticity. The article seems to show no
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Computer games train children to practice violence through a scientifically proven process called systematic desensitization, used to in video games to train soldiers to kill.
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Chih-Hsiung TuAnnotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-1153583%2FSocial-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html
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Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist
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Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
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Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
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in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf,' she said.
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adam muircreating causal relationships between disparate elements that does not take subtle cultural factors into account can also lead to infantilsation. stupid poopy-head.
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Add Sticky Note'My fear is
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Fears - but proof?
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Yet again - "could". I would like to read more research based facts.
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Claude AlmansiSocial networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned.
Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
The claims from neuroscientist Susan Greenfield will make disturbing reading for the millions whose social lives depend on logging on to their favourite websites each day.Derbyshire socialnetworking children neuroscience facebook neuroscientist web2.0 Neurology Greenfield Oxford Twitter Bebo
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Add Sticky Note'I'm not against technology and computers. But before they start social networking, they need to learn to make real relationships with people.'
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Considering that you have to be 13 to participate in most social networking sites, it should be hoped indeed that children do have a chance to engage in real life socializing before that
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Do sports bars count as real life socializing? The barriers between virtual and so-called "real" are being blurred.
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encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
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Imagining babies using Twitter, Facebook and playing computer games!
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kantertalks about how online interaction rewires the brain in a negative way
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Phil GreaneyThis has caused a lot of controversy, and claims that Susan Greenfield has abused her position.
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Angela RandallSeems like half-truth and half bullshit. One comment is ominous though "Computer games train children to practice violence through a scientifically proven process called systematic desensitization, used to in video games to train soldiers to kill. Those w
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satja fallven fact that the brains of children (and that includes those
of high school age) are neurologically "soft," meaning they are still
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