Use the original smart phone - and make your kids do it, too
Educators who work with children, like myself, have been observing what has seemed like a decline in cognitive processes and in general intelligence over the last five years, in particular. Now, evidence shows that indeed, people are becoming less smart . One science writer made a comment similar to something that I've been saying for a while now, that when we outsource our brain to a technological device, we lose our own capacity for thinking. In other words, we become more dumb. Another problem is multi-tasking, which keeps the information we do encounter from being stored in our memories. As a result, people are becoming more forgetful, and have shorter attention spans . Those who have greater knowledge have more ability to be creative , which will be more valuable in the future if current trends continue: To be a creative and imaginative thinker is to develop original and useful products—whether physical or ideational. To develop these ideas, we need to have a knowledg
