Should we trust regular cues from screens and their alleged harmful effects on children’s health and learning abilities? Not always: Or rather, not yet… A huge study published last November Nature Human Behavior , summarizes much of the published work in this area and throws new pavement into the pond; studies that say “screens” in general are bad for kids are unhelpful. Because being too broad, they don’t really teach us much.
Researchers from Taren Sanders’ team at the Catholic University of Sydney (Australia) spent five years sorting through and analyzing 2,557 meta-analyses on the effects of screens on children and adolescents. They thus noticed that the works that are interested not only in the time of the exhibition, but also in the content of what is offered and in what context draw a more nuanced picture and, above all,…
Source: Le Figaro
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