A recent NY Times analysis found that student test scores after rising since 1990 began plummeting in the early 2010's. Reading scores dropped for 83 percent of school districts while math dipped in 70 percent of districts compared to the previous decade. The reason for the decline were given as increased screen time, a decline in recreational reading and shorter attention spans. No doubt the introduction of the iPhone in 2010/11 was a major contributor.
Technology is dumbing us down.
Many have written about the problems posed by technology. On this blog I have consistently educated on how technology makes us less empathetic, alienates us, makes us lonely, depresses us and more... Click on, or type Technology Kills in the search box.
Here we are talking about how social media and cell phones make us think less, read less.....Instead of reading a book that gets us to think, we scroll. WE are being dumbed down because we are thinking less. Imagine how the introduction of the car, while providing convenience, got us to walk less; and in doing so we exercised our legs less and our leg muscles began to atrophy.
No doubt we are moving closer to a world as seen in the movie the Matrix where we exist in an incubator; we are fed and our minds are mined and hijacked to feed the machines with our brain impulses.
TECHNOLOGY KILLS
