🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE Smartphones and other tech pose special challenges — and opportunities — for young brains.
Even before they can say the words, “Hey, Siri,” kids are awash in smartphones, tablets and a torrent of interactive content. The average child younger than 2 spends around 40 minutes a day looking at screens — and that daily dose only increases as the years go by. One survey estimates that almost half of all American teenagers say they’re online nearly constantly.
The bulk of research shows that, unlike older children, infants and toddlers are less likely to learn from a screen than from a dynamic, face-to-face interaction — a phenomenon known as “video deficit.” As early as the 1980s, researchers discovered that children learn language skills better from shows such asif an adult is watching with them and reinforcing the material.
The research team notes that the findings are preliminary, with some of the biggest unanswered questions beyond the scope of the study. “And the elephant in the room is looking at parents’ screen time,” says lead author John Hutton, a pediatrician and researcher at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. “That’s one thing we didn’t measure in the study that I wish we had. Because kids that grow up with a lot of screen time tend to have parents using a lot of screens.
While Green’s research primarily involves college-age adults, other scientists have dug into the effect of action video games on children’s development. Overall, the research suggests that the benefits translate to kids. A 2010 study involving children 7 to 17 years old showed that gamers were better equipped than their peers to focus their attention on multiple objects at a time.
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