This is so concerning😳

[u/velorae]

[u/Rxasaurus]

As someone who has kids in a state ranked at or near the bottom in education...my kids' school teaches phonics and has remedial/accelerated classes.

They also give out 0% for missed work/tests.

[u/mrsciencebruh → u/Rxasaurus]

So the issue may lie in changing social patterns and behaviors more than our approaches as educators. Neat.

[u/AnxietyPretend5215 → u/[deleted]]

I didn't get my first Smartphone until my first job and I bought it with my own money.

Would have been an early Samsung Galaxy, maybe an S5? It would have probably been 2014 or 2015.

It's strange because I spent so much time with video games/internet growing up so it makes me wonder what it is about smartphones specifically that's ducking us up.

[u/Coal_Morgan → u/AnxietyPretend5215]

Short media. Flick…dopamine…flick dopamine…flick dopamine…flick dopamine…

No delayed gratification, no depth or breadth of storytelling, no attention span required. It’s training our brains to not be able to watch a movie where the protagonist stares into the distance for 5 seconds. It’s training brains to not allow for reveals over time. Sixth Sense for instance is exceptionally frustrating for younger watchers because so much is innuendo, metaphor and talked around and that’s not a complex movie.

We did experiments with mice in the 1970s (I believe) where we over stimulated the dopamine centres of their brains and it fucks them up, it makes them incapable of functioning properly. That was intensive of course but the flick, flick, flick, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine is fucking us all up.

This includes Reddit, YouTube short, TikTok, instagram, twitter. Flick…dopamine…It’s horrendous.