Generation Z born between 1997 to 2010 are showing lower performance than previous cohorts in core cognitive areas, a leading neuroscientist told a US Senate committee, blaming the rapid spread of classroom screens and educational technology.
Dr Jared Cooney Horvath told the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on 15 January that decades of international testing show literacy, numeracy, attention and higher-order reasoning have stalled or reversed since the mid-2000s, even as pupils spend more time in school.
He argued that one-to-one device programmes and constant connectivity fragment attention and train skimming rather than deep study.
