In today’s information era, many classrooms around the country focus on interactive instruction that includes computers, movies, PowerPoints, class lecture, and discussion. This seems like a well-rounded learning experience, but it is missing an important component—textbook reading, which builds the foundation for deeper conceptual understanding. Although the 400-page, 5-pound textbook has become the dinosaur to […]

For nearly all people, in nearly all situations, multitasking is impossible. When we think we’re multitasking, most often we aren’t really doing two things at once – but instead, individual actions in rapid succession.The neuroscience is clear: We are wired to be mono-taskers. One study found that just 2.5% of people are able to multitask […]

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Parents watch their children flit from screen to screen and wonder if this generation of kids has any sticking ability. Can they focus on anything for more than two minutes or 140 characters? Do they know how to deal with real people and read real facial expressions and body language? What about paper: would they […]

Even with Facebook, Netflix and other digital distractions increasingly vying for time, Americans’ appetite for reading books — the ones you actually hold in your hands — has not slowed in recent years, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.Sixty-five percent of adults in the United States said they had read a printed […]

By Dr. Nicholas Kardaras August 27, 2016 | 7:54pm Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. “I thought, ‘Why not let him get a jump on things?’ ” she told me during a therapy session. John’s school had begun using the devices with younger and younger grades — […]