I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
Short form content (IG, TikTok, Twitter, etc.) has damaged all our attention spans, I fear. COVID didn’t do education any favors, but significant damage has been done by the dopamine-driven screen time “epidemic.”
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I think it's all part of the bigger shift from text to video as famously predicted by Neil Postman. Definitely worth a read
ektr.uni-eger.hu/wp-content/u...
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Nailed it. Dopamine from short form screen hits.
Plus, I think, we no longer have time to do anything slowly. We live to the rhythm of texting.
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I agree. I'm in STEM and the ability of students to focus has diminished and the process of learning has been greatly compromised.
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Yes. It's bite sized info ON PHONES.
