Technology Shapes Brain Development

09/19/2017

Technology Shapes Brain Development

It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and author

Jim Taylor, in an article in Psychology Today, writes about a "growing body of research that technology can be both beneficial and harmful to different ways in which children think... What is clear is that, as with advances throughout history, the technology that is available determines how our brains develop. For example, as the technology writer Nicholas Carr has observed, the emergence of reading encouraged our brains to be focused and imaginative. In contrast, the rise of the Internet is strengthening our ability to scan information rapidly and efficiently...

"The effects of technology on children are complicated, with both benefits and costs. Whether technology helps or hurts in the development of your children’s thinking depends on what specific technology is used and how and what frequency it is used."

Source: "How Technology is Changing the Way Children Think and Focus," by Jim Taylor, PhD., Psychology Today, December 4, 2012

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