YouTube may be causing a screentime crisis in classrooms. Parents are realizing that their kids spend hours at school scrolling through YouTube, with one seventh grader viewing more than 13K videos at school in three months. But this trend isn’t just anecdotal—one survey shows that 94% of teachers have used YouTube in their roles. On Chromebooks and other school devices, YouTube sometimes makes up for half of student traffic, according to some web-filtering companies and administrators. Many also worry learning on digital devices can have negative impacts on children’s attention spans and make them crave the “‘dopamine drip’ of screens,” as reading on screens generates lower brain activity compared to physical books. According to YPulse’s tween data, 38% of tweens said they visit social networks to learn something new. (WSJ)
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