David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, talked about how technology and social media contribute to a “crisis of attention” in March during a School Leaders Roundtable hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.
The CultureFeed Team
December 6, 2017
David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, talked about how technology and social media contribute to a “crisis of attention” in March during a School Leaders Roundtable hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.
“The crisis of attention is a crisis for me, and certainly for students,” Brooks said. “One study in Britain found the average teenager checked their cell phone 221 times a day, every 4.3 minutes.”
Educators and parents can guide students’ engagement with mobile technology through a lesson on “using technology more wisely” from the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues.