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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think it is just the pandemic’s effect. The truth is we also merged tech and education durinf the pandemic and it is still merged as many kids have mandated time in computers at school starting in Prek. If you know anything about dopamine levels during screen usage particularly a leveled game which most edutainment games use, you know these can be addictive. Not only are pandemic children coming off a major disruptive life effect they also are expected to be able to regulate their brain immediately after getting off of an old or electronic game. They really aren’t getting a chance to heal from covid because of the introduction of tech.

I’m not even mentioning the use of social media outside of school. There are 4 year olds watching YouTube and tik tok![/quote]

Thank you for posting this!

I think that the lasting effect of a year or more on heavy screens plus the fact that teachers are still heavily using screen based lessons even though kids are back in front of them are widely unappreciated and still largely unknown.

Pre pandemic attention spans and self regulation were already shrinking. The pandemic accelerated and magnified those effects.[/quote]

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