How much media do children and teens consume each day?
According to the "Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds," children are consuming an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to using entertainment media across a typical day. That is unbelievable to me! That means that kids are getting home from school, accessing media immediately, and continue to use some sort of entertainment media until nearly 11 pm. Where is the time for homework?
How does the type of media consumed impact cognition?
If the media is engaging, cognition can be improved. Engaging would require some unique thought process or activity. Some good types of media would be reading a book or playing an active video game (wii Fit, xBox Kinnect, etc.). If an activity is repeated too many times, it becomes a reflex to us and is no longer improving cognition. It is important to have variance with those activities. It is also important that we don't try to "multitask" too often. If we spend too much time switching between tasks, do we really become masters of (create neural connections to) any of them?
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