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Excessive phone use is significantly affecting children’s education. This has been revealed in a study. Let us know what this study says about children using phones. Research has revealed that excessive screen time is adversely affecting children’s understanding of basic maths and reading. According to experts, children are not able to focus for long while solving any problem, which has a direct impact on their studies and behavior.
In this era of technology, children have started using mobile, tablet or laptop more for studies, especially after Covid, their screen time has increased a lot due to online classes, but research shows that increasing screen time is having a negative impact on children’s studies. Even children who have more screen time have seen a decline of up to 10% in their marks. This study TARGet Kids! Has been done under the network. In which Dr. Catherine Birken and Dr. Jonathan Maguire have played important roles.
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What was found in the research?
In fact, research conducted on more than 5,000 children in Canada from 2008 to 2023 revealed that the thinking ability of children who spend more time on screens from a young age is gradually weakening. For every extra hour of screen time, the studies of younger children were decreasing by 9% and the math marks of older students were decreasing by 10%. However, there is not much difference on writing skills. Teachers say that now children are not able to concentrate on one thing for long.
sleep is also affected
According to experts, spending more time on screen also affects sleep. Sitting for long periods of time and consuming content with excessive light or rapidly changing colors and sounds tires children’s brain. Especially the brain of children below eight years of age is very sensitive.
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