• gedfromgont@piefed.ca
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    1 day ago

    Guys, did anyone who commented so far actually read any of the article?

    I’ll give you a quote what this is actually saying:

    Arguing that all screen time is inherently bad and must be reduced at all costs fails to take into consideration what that screen time actually is.

    And a quote from the study they talk about

    The researchers’ best guess is that the question “how many hours?” was always the wrong one. What matters is what fills those hours.

    A child who spends an evening solving puzzles, building elaborate worlds in a game, editing videos or looking things up is doing something with their attention and memory. A child passively watching an autoplay feed is doing something quite different. The study could not fully separate those uses, but Jalanko’s advice points that way: parents and teachers should steer children toward screen use that involves active thinking, problem-solving, creativity and learning.