2. Barbara Arrowsmith Young
Arrowsmith School treats learning
disabilities
Young: Struggled with dyslexia
Psychology graduate
Her theory:
“A person can transform weak areas of the
brain through repetitive and targeted
cognitive exercises”
3. Continued…
Schools are in US and Canada
In 2003, TCDSB comprehension rates of
learning increased 1½ to 3 times
Young people have a type of ADD
Their problems:
Thinking
Problem Solving
Task Completion
Getting Distracted Easily
Trouble with Non-verbal Thinking
Face Expressions
Body Language
4. Facts
We are Digital Natives
On average:
Approx.: 8½ hrs a day absorb digital and
video sensory
By 20:
Approx.: 20 000 hrs. on the web
10 000 hrs. playing video games
5. Dr. Gary Small
Dr. Gary Small: renowned neuroscientist
Beleive the human brain has been
affected quickly and dramatically
Performed Experiment:
A “savvy” and “naïve” computer user
5 hours each on Google
Savvy remained the same in the brain
Naïve rewired their brain
6. Our society is turning off their frontal lobes.
Better known as “video game brain.”
We are developing a generation with
underdeveloped frontal lobes.
Digital natives are miles ahead of where we
used to be, but are not using this to their
advantage.
We spend so much time online, that we have
fewer face to face interactions.
Consequences?
We have more information on hands then ever
and yet we know less.
7. Stress, No Time
It’s not what you learn, it’s what you know.
We depend on machines and technology,
which leads humans to do less thinking, losing
our mental sources.
We use less and less of our brain, it’s all a cut
and paste learning process. We become
intellectually lazy
We no longer have time to reflect, contemplate
or make decisions.
Our brain eventually can’t take this “strain”
and eventually shuts down, we get “brain fog”,
which leads to depression.