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Neuroscientists tiff over effects of screen time on young brains
During the early years of a human’s life, trillions of brain-cell connections, called synapses, are formed, thanks to jolts of stimulation. As Donald Hebb’s theory rhymes, “neurons that fire together, wire together”.
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Working in a school with primary children for the last 30+ years has demonstrated that children that are physical and manage the external environment and are in contact with people. nature and social contexts are far more engaged and inclined to want to learn in the class, compared to children that spend more than 1 hour a day on electronic devices.
There are positives in all we do and computers and technology are certainly going to help children in the future; however while the brain is at its most active, in the child’s early learning years, we want the neural connections to be linked as much as possible to the Motor Sensory areas of the brain as this appears to stimulate most brain functions.