{"id":1307,"date":"2016-11-12T20:54:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T20:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2018-01-01T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T16:04:01","slug":"research-morsel-digital-media-vs-flourishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/research-morsel-digital-media-vs-flourishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Morsel: Digital Media vs. Flourishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Findings<\/strong>: Researchers at Brown University1<\/sup> have found that increased time spent on \u201cdigital media\u201d reduces the likelihood of \u201cflourishing.\u201d For example, students who spent 2-4 hours on digital media were 23% less likely to complete homework than those who spent 0-2 hours.<\/p>\n

Those who spent more than 6 hours (!) on digital media were 63% less likely (!!) to finish homework than their 0-2 hour peers.<\/p>\n

Screen time impedes other kinds of growth. Extra minutes on digital media reduce the likelihood that students will complete tasks that they have started, or remain calm under pressure.<\/p>\n

Surprise #1<\/strong>: This result holds true despite age, gender, or socio-economic status. Stereotypes might suggest, for instance, that girls can handle digital distraction better than boys can, but\u2026at least in this study\u2026not so much.<\/p>\n

Nagging Questions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

At least so far, these researchers haven\u2019t reported the effects of meaningful subcategories. Are all kind of digital media equally bad?<\/p>\n

After all, other studies have shown cognitive benefits for some video games: for example, Portal2<\/sup>, or Starcraft3<\/sup>. One HUGE study (27,000 French middle schoolers) found that video games had basically no effect on academic performance4<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

I also wonder: as teachers increasingly assign homework that might be done on a tablet, what effect does academic<\/em> digital media time have on these findings? Do our efforts to join our students\u2019 digital lives in fact impede their learning?<\/p>\n

Is the problem here simply distraction from schoolwork? For example: if a student spends more than 6 hours a day (!) building snow forts, what effect does that have on the likelihood she will finish her homework?<\/p>\n

The research hasn\u2019t been published yet, so we\u2019re still relying on the authors\u2019 own summaries.<\/p>\n

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  1. American Academy of Pediatrics. (2016, October 21). More time on digital devices means kids less likely to finish homework: Study finds dose-dependent relationship between time spent watching TV, playing video games or using a smartphone and tablet, and the chances a child will regularly finish homework.\u00a0ScienceDaily<\/em>. Retrieved November 12, 2016 from sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/10\/161021122236.htm<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Shute, V. J., Ventura, M., & Ke, F. (2015). The power of play: The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills.\u00a0Computers & Education<\/em>,\u00a080<\/em>, 58-67. [article<\/a>]<\/li>\n
  3. Glass, B. D., Maddox, W. T., & Love, B. C. (2013). Real-time strategy game training: emergence of a cognitive flexibility trait.\u00a0PLoS One<\/em>,\u00a08<\/em>(8), e70350. [article<\/a>]<\/li>\n
  4. Lieury, A., Lorant, S., Trosseille, B., Champault, F., & Vourc\u2019h, R. (2014). Video games vs. reading and school\/cognitive performances: a study on 27000 middle school teenagers.\u00a0Educational Psychology<\/em>, 1-36.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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