Three bar graphs show hourly, mean, and total screen times. Graph A shows screen time for aged 15-18 years and aged 11-14 years from 8 AM to 2 AM. Graph B shows mean screen time on school days and non-school days. Graph C shows total screen time.

Among adolescents, smartphone use occurred every hour of the school day, averaging over 2 hours on devices, with frequent checking during class linked to poorer cognitive control. #Pediatrics #CognitiveDevelopment

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Senate unanimously passes bill to convene working group on school-provided technology Senate File 23 35 directs the Department of Education, with the Department of Health and Human Services, to convene a working group to study how school-provided technology affects students' cognitive and social development and to report findings to the General Assembly by year-end; sponsors described the measure as a targeted review and guidance effort.

The Iowa Senate just passed a groundbreaking bill to investigate how school-provided technology impacts student learning and attention—could this reshape our classrooms?

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#IA #CitizenPortal #BestPractices #TechnologyImpact #IowaEducation #CognitiveDevelopment

The Kids Are Getting Dumber... YouTube video by Upper Echelon

Upper Echelon: "The Kids Are Getting Dumber..." | #BigTech #Technology #ChatGBT #TikTok #GenZ #GenAlpha #CognitiveDevelopment #CognitiveAbilities #CognitiveDecline #FunctionallyIlliterate #DrJaredCooneyHorvat #UScongress #Education #ProjectRED #LowerAttentionSpans
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🧩 How attention, memory, and cognition actually work — and what educators need to rethink when AI enters the learning process.

#Science #LearningSupport #Neuroscience #CognitiveDevelopment #EducationalTheories #AIandTheFutureofEducation #AIinSchools #AIforAll #TechLeaders

Piaget’s Stages of Development: Sensorimotor to Formal Operational Explained
#PiagetStages #CognitiveDevelopment #ChildPsychology #Pediatrics #iPrkashMishra

The Script Was Written Early Hyperfixation, Science Fiction, and the Cognitive Arc of Elon Musk

What if Elon Musk’s Mars obsession isn’t ideology or strategy - but the execution of a childhood sci-fi script, locked in by hyperfixation and scaled by power?

A continued project on neurodivergence in the real world.

#Neurodiversity #ASD #ScienceFiction #TechCulture #CognitiveDevelopment #Mars

Catherine Lebel, Associate Professor at @ucalgary.bsky.social, explains how her #LEVANTE project findings are already driving tangible changes beyond the classroom.

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#EducationPolicy #CognitiveDevelopment #Policy

How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily functioning, future planning, and mental/physical health. Here, learn how to improve core EFs through recommended activities, exercises, and games.

To improve any executive function, practice is critical. Learn tips from Adele Diamond, Ph.D., FRSC, FAPA, FAPS, FSEP.
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Infants who display greater curiosity tend to develop higher cognitive abilities in childhood #Science #Biology #DevelopmentalBiology #Curiosity #CognitiveDevelopment #ChildPsychology

Formal schooling boosts executive functions beyond natural maturation #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #ExecutiveFunction #CognitiveDevelopment #EducationalImpact

A hand holds a book. The book, titled “The Theatre Artist’s Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy” features an orange-and marigold cover with hand-drawn illustrations of neurons and students of different ages dancing, writing, having measurements taken, and participating in other theatrical activities. The picture is captioned “excited to crack this bad boy open”

A second sighting!

I’m excited that other artists and educators are already receiving and reading the Theatre Artist’s Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy!

#theatre #consent #pedagogy #teachers #k12 #HigherEd #CognitiveDevelopment #NewBook

How to Embed the Six Core Mental Guardrails in Industry 5.0 YouTube video by Thinking 5.0 Studio

Stop outsourcing your thinking to AI. Start partnering with it. 🧠
Thinking 5.0 = humans + AI solving real-world complex problems Socrates meets Industry 5.0...Let's Go Thinking 5.0!

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#Thinking50 #HumanAIPartnership #CognitiveDevelopment #ProblemSolving #AIEthics

Large-scale U.S. study links water fluoridation to slightly improved cognitive development #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #Fluoridation #CognitiveDevelopment #PublicHealthResearch

Most children identified as gifted at age 7 do not maintain high cognitive ability by adolescence #Science #Psychology #Education #GiftedEducation #CognitiveDevelopment #ChildPsychology

Train Your Brain to Remember Anything You Learn With This Simple, 20-Minute Habit Getty Recently, a colleague and I were lamenting the process of growing older and the inevitable increasing difficulty of remembering things we want to remember. That becomes particularly annoying …

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Bag a kids' book for Christmas, and instill a love of reading forever!

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Thank you to @drpetetaylor.bsky.social for highlighting how iodine deficiency is a UK public health issue and proposing steps to address this. Please share to get this message heard.
#iodine #pregnancy #CognitiveDevelopment @thyroidbritish.bsky.social @socendocrinology.bsky.social

🔬"We can do great things in the Global South... and have an impact in global science"

🌍 Cecilia Calero shares why she joined the #LEVANTE project—and how she sees her site's influence across borders.

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#CognitiveDevelopment #LearningVariability

Understanding how children learn capitalization offers insights into cognitive development and highlights the complexity of language acquisition, emphasizing educational disparities. 🌍📚 Link: https://tinyurl.com/298a2xo2 #EducationMatters #LanguageLearning #CognitiveDevelopment