youth and children today spend more time with Internet, TV and cell phone than with education.
Prof. Manfred Spitzer research since 2004 in Ulm Transfer Center for Neuroscience and Learning (ZNL) to "neurodidactics" and how media affect our intellect and the brain.
Every day, mobile games, Internet, social networks, TV, video games, can still be healthy? Especially for small children?
The recommendation of Prof. Spitzer is to put children under three years, never before a screen. children need for their development, the use of all senses , which has not been created by the virtual computer world.
The brain is changed by the Internet in the sense that
the part of the brain responsible for motor skills , remains unused. At least a third. If children only learn on the net, think they can slower to focus bad. [...]
too early Internet use makes kids stupid.
Furthermore, it was important to help children to first establish a priori knowledge (through their social environment, parents, friends, print media and good teachers)
It is the imbalance that leads to the problem FOUR hours of instruction per day (per 7-day week), at five and a half hours of media consumption.
children need after school only Arts doze need. During this time, solidifies in the brain learn in class. If a child plays directly after school online, from the video games, watching TV, forget the brain is the previously learned.
sources and reading tips:
- Spitzer, Manfred: Caution screen: Electronic media, brain development, health and society
- Spitzer BILD.de
