Brain Rot - Cognitive Capability for Gen Z is Down

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Concentration is essential to complex learning. We are not born with equivalent capabilities for concentration but concentration can certainly be practiced. In a world of endless internet toys or alerts kids are conditioned to expect persistence micro doses of dopamine which constantly draws their attention to the sources of the dopamine.
 
Ubiquitous screens for entertainment/distraction has likely been a problem. "back in my day" kids had to endure boring things, like standing in long lines, sitting relatively quietly in public. With the advent of portal gameboys, ipads and tablets parents could just throw media (games or cartoons) into the face of their whiny, fidgety child, nullifying the requirement to handle boredom and idle-time. No wonder modern kids have trouble with classroom settings which are often boring and idle by nature in contrast to nintendo and paw patrol.
 
gregh1 said:
Ubiquitous screens for entertainment/distraction has likely been a problem. "back in my day" kids had to endure boring things, like standing in long lines, sitting relatively quietly in public. With the advent of portal gameboys, ipads and tablets parents could just throw media (games or cartoons) into the face of their whiny, fidgety child, nullifying the requirement to handle boredom and idle-time. No wonder modern kids have trouble with classroom settings which are often boring and idle by nature in contrast to nintendo and paw patrol.
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My wife and I talk about this all the time. That said, despite how easy it is for our kids to become bored and their inability to deal with it, they do very well in school both academically and behaviorally. And my son has been diagnosed with severe ADHD.
 
gregh1 said:
Ubiquitous screens for entertainment/distraction has likely been a problem. "back in my day" kids had to endure boring things, like standing in long lines, sitting relatively quietly in public. With the advent of portal gameboys, ipads and tablets parents could just throw media (games or cartoons) into the face of their whiny, fidgety child, nullifying the requirement to handle boredom and idle-time. No wonder modern kids have trouble with classroom settings which are often boring and idle by nature in contrast to nintendo and paw patrol.
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10-15 hour car trips with nothing but mind games like “I spy a ……” or “Who sees license plates from the most states first?”

Fortunately, I could read in a car.
 
I wonder if the problem is that the nature of understanding the world has changed in the last 25 years and standardized tests are no longer adequate for the task of capably measuring how well folks do at it.

With the advent and the spread of the internet, the issue in learning is no longer acquiring and organizing enough information to understand a topic, it's managing the overwhelming amount of information available and being able to parse through a whole lot of incorrect or fabricated data in order to identify what is relevant and then acting appropriately on that information. It strikes me that most standardized tests aren't up for evaluating the latter expertise.

Now, I'm not saying that Gen Z is good at this task (nor do I believe that older generations are very good at it, either), but I'm not sure that typical standardized tests know how to test this skill.
 
SnoopRob said:
I wonder if the problem is that the nature of understanding the world has changed in the last 25 years and standardized tests are no longer adequate for the task of capably measuring how well folks do at it.

With the advent and the spread of the internet, the issue in learning is no longer acquiring and organizing enough information to understand a topic, it's managing the overwhelming amount of information available and being able to parse through a whole lot of incorrect or fabricated data in order to identify what is relevant and then acting appropriately on that information. It strikes me that most standardized tests aren't up for evaluating the latter expertise.

Now, I'm not saying that Gen Z is good at this task (nor do I believe that older generations are very good at it, either), but I'm not sure that typical standardized tests know how to test this skill.
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My ex(Middle School Language Arts teacher) would tell you the Leave Every Child Behind Standardized tests are very flawed For starters they generally are not National product-but State by State-and yea NC's can suck
Now she would further tell you the mad panic for schools to have kids pass throws hot sewage on the totality of teaching
 
wmheel1287 said:
My Gen Z cohort does just fine if you know how to engage them. I think nonstop media and screens has deteriorated older minds much more quickly. My 40-60 folks are on a major struggle bus the last couple of years.
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Yeah I think is the broader point - it's degrading all of our brains, not just the developing ones.
 
aGDevil2k said:
www.yahoo.com

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

First generation less cognitively capable than prior generations. Are screens and social media to blame?
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I would have probably been the same way as a kid if I had access to technology like they do now and was growing up during this time. I think for many it's a way to escape and not have to deal with the real world, which for most people sucks if we are being totally honest.
 
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