fbpx

Cайт находится на реконструкции. Актуальная информация по адресу: https://shestov.ru

Языки, знания и навыки в рекордные сроки от легендарного педагога из Книги Гиннесса

+1 (917) 208-7434 +7 (926) 216-0242

Подростки с мозгом трёхлетнего ребёнка

Social media is making children regress to mentality of three-year-olds, says top brain scientist
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/05/social-media-regressing-children-mentality-three-year-olds-says/

О стремительном формировании поколения взрослых, с умственным и эмоциональным развитием трехлетнего ребенка, предупреждает известный ученый, специалист в области изучения мозга.

Видеоигры и другие информационные технологии формируют принципиально нового человека — один из ведущих британских исследователей физиологии мозга Сьюзан Гринфилд бьет тревогу – дети, выросшие на видеоиграх и с раннего возраста освоившие общение в соцсетях, уже практически не в состоянии самостоятельно мыслить и полноценно общаться друг с другом.

Больше всего учёный обеспокоена масштабом проблемы. Речь идет о целом поколении людей умственное и эмоциональное развитие которых буквально не будет превосходить уровень развития детей трехлетнего возраста.

Постоянные внешние возбудители, в роли которых выступают видеоигры и общение в соцсетях, приводит к тому, что молодым людям, как малышам до трех лет, необходимо «что-то, что будет стимулировать их мозг извне, они не могут сами организовать свое внутреннее пространство, не могут начать мыслить».

«Сейчас уже с уверенностью можно утверждать, что в самое ближайшее время мы столкнемся с проблемой людей, вступивших во взрослый возраст, которые по основным психологическим параметрам остановились в развитии на уровне трехлетних детей. Эти параметры включают в себя эмоциональное развитие, способность принимать решения и адекватно оценивать риски, недостаточная способность к взаимодействию с окружающими, слабая самоидентификация и неспособность удерживать внимание хоть сколько-нибудь длительное время».

В качестве доказательства она привела результаты исследования, проведенного Гарвадским и Принстонским университетами, результат которого показал – студенты предпочитают получить электрический разряд нежели оказаться на 10 минут в одиночестве, наедине со своими мыслями.

«Проблема гораздо глубже, чем я считала, когда готовила свое исследование в 2014 году. Тогда мы установили, что молодые люди нуждаются в ежеминутных внешних раздражителях, создаваемых внешним окружением. Они больше не могут путешествовать в свой внутренний мир, в итоге они буквально лишаются способности мыслить».

Для того чтобы противостоять этой колоссальной угрозе родители должны организовывать деятельность детей таким образом, чтобы дети делали то, что имеет начало, развитие и конец, например, чтение книг, занятия спортом или огородничество потому что растение невозможно заставить расти быстрее нажав клавишу «перемотки вперед» как в видеоигре, где ребенок может свободно двигаться во времени вперед и назад, сохраняться и переигрывать неудачные моменты заново.

«Вместо коробок с видеоиграми дайте ребенку обычную пустую коробку, чтобы играя он был вынужден задействовать воображение, а если вам удастся заинтересовать его чтением, то вы увидите, как положительно это отразится на его способности концентрировать внимание», — добавила Сьюзан Гринфилд, которая долгое время занималась исследованиями в области рецепторной фармакологии в ранге профессора на базе Оксфордского университета.

Еще четыре года назад в своей книге «Изменения в сознании», Гринфилд предупреждала об угрозе для формирования детского мозга, который буквально перепрограммируется под воздействием новых технологий.

В результате этих изменений формируется облик новой, пугающе-противоречивой личности – самолюбующейся, но с заниженной самооценкой, стремящейся к общению при помощи электронных устройств, но не способной общаться лицом к лицу, способной на неоправданный риск, но по-младенчески робкой перед лицом любой практической проблемы.

Такая личность неизбежно оказывается в состоянии глубокой депрессии выйти из которой без посторонней помощи она уже не может. «Я была бы рада ошибиться, но то, что случилось уже является доказанным фактом», — говорит профессор. Сьюзан Гринфилд поддерживает инициативу законодательного ограничения доступа к виртуальным играм и соцсетям для защиты детей от их разрушительного влияния.

Также она предлагает контролировать производителей опасного для детей контента на предмет умышленного использования технологий, которые приводят юных пользователей к тяжелой зависимости от их продукции.

«Если бы только родители были в состоянии понять, что именно делают с их детьми они бы давно подняли восстание. <…> Я очень хочу, чтобы родители смогли правильно оценить происходящее и запретили детям доступ к опасному контенту так же, как сейчас они запрещают детям курить», — подытожила Сьюзан Гринсфилд.

Social media is making children regress to mentality of three-year-olds, says top brain scientist

Children’s use of social media is affecting their social skills, according to Baroness Susan Greenfield

Social media and video games are creating a generation of children with the mental and emotional immaturity of three-year-olds, one of Britain’s most eminent brain scientists has warned.

Baroness Susan Greenfield, a senior research fellow at Oxford University and former director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, said she was concerned children were losing their ability to think for themselves, empathise and communicate with each other.

Instead, they were being bombarded with instant gratification through social media and gaming which meant that like three-year-olds they would need “something every moment to distract them so they can’t have their own inner narrative, their own inner thought process.”

“What I predict is that people are going to be like three-year-olds: emotional, risk-taking, poor social skills, weak self-identity and short attention spans,” said Baroness Greenfield, who was one of the first academics to warn four years ago that social media and video gaming were re-wiring children’s brains.

She cited as evidence a recent study by Harvard and Princeton universities which found students preferred to give themselves an electric shock rather than face 10 minutes alone simply thinking.

“There’s a much deeper issue than I wrote about in 2014 in that people are now needing constant stimulation from their environment every single moment as suggested by that [Harvard] result. They’re no longer able to go into their own mind, think laterally and have their own thoughts.”

Instead, she said children should do activities with a beginning, middle and an end such as reading books, playing sport or gardening where plant-growing could not be rushed rather than “multi-tasking where everything happens all at once and you can go backward and forward in time in games.”

“Give them a box to play with rather than an X-box so they can use their imagination. If you watch a child who is reading stories, you can see it gives them a better attention span,” added Baroness Greenfield, who was professor of synaptic pharmacology at Oxford University.

“I have started to look at things they don’t do — that is promoting physical exercise, eating together and above all telling stories.”

Her book, Mind Change, four years ago warned that children’s brains were being re-wired by their engagement with new technology.

The result was that they were likely to become more narcissistic with lower self-esteem and higher depression rates as communication through social media replaced face-to-face conversations. “I do feel vindicated. I wished I had not been,” she said.

She backed regulation to force the social media and gaming firms to do more to protect children from online harms, echoing The Daily Telegraph’s campaign for a statutory duty of care to be imposed on the companies.

She said the firms should be made to “fess up” to the addictive designs and techniques they used to keep people online. “If people were aware of how they were being manipulated, they would rebel against it,” she said.

“I want parents to be so aware of the [risks of the technology] that they intervene to stop their children doing it, like with smoking.”

Reader questions and Charles’ answers
North South asks:

Once a child has been damaged by social media, is the damage permanent?

Or can the effects be reversed in adulthood with therapy?

Charles:
I think they can be reversed. Which is why we have the first NHS clinic to treat addiction. It has worked with gamblers so no reason it cannot work with gaming addicts. There is a wider societal issue about mental ill health among children which is not just about social media (though social media is, by all accounts, making it worse.)

Caroline Morrell says:
The problem is parents who have abdicated responsibility for bringing up their children by failing to teach them to respect others and property because they expect the state and state institutions to do it for them or social media to keep children amused.
Gadgets are no substitute for love and stimulation to learn the social graces and skills required to work and form relationships in society. Narcissism and personality disorders are on the increase as evidenced by social media and this is causing problems in wider society.

Charles:
I think there is an issue about the role of parents but I don’t think it is easy. How many of you have been forced into a situation where you have had to have a row with your teenage child about use of the phone at night time or before bed? I know I have. Which is why the suggestion by Jon Goldin, the royal college psychiatrist, who last week urged the government to take a lead and advise parents not to give their under 11s a smartphone.

Marcus Aurelius says:
Given that plenty of us have been saying the same thing for a number of years, it is always nice to have the ‘experts’ catch up.
Personally I would be fine with 10 hours alone to just think.

Charles:
Or how about just a good book as Baroness Susan Greenfield suggests. I would say it’s important for all adults to set an example by not using our phones at inappropriate moments — whether at the dinner table, even in a crowded train carriage, or walking along the street with heads down engrossed in the smartphone.

Lukas Cahal says:
This is a worrying trend and it’s good that it’s being recognised as a danger to our children.
That said, considering the sheer volume of frankly absurd and infantile remarks being made about the political articles in these comments sections — especially and particularly those concerning Brexit — it would seem it is not only children whose minds are being regressed by social media to those of three year olds.

Charles:
I agree that social media does appear sometimes to bring the worst out of people. I think it’s the way in which you can hide behind an online identity that might be different to the one that you meet face to face. It’s much harder to be abusive or rude when you have to do it face to face.

Martin Spencer says:
I live in a village it’s not just children a simple good morning is either ignored or met with a grunt if your lucky. They will chat and laugh on a mobile to somebody but seem reluctant to communicate face to face; I find it quite rude.

Charles:
I think you are absolutely right about the way smart phones suck in all our attention to the distraction of everything else. One of the worst elements is the «push notification», such that if you have to go and do something in the real world, it will ping and say why don’t you come back to the online world. It’s the social media firms’ raison d’etre to keep us online, as long as possible, in order to maximise their advertising revenue.
Let’s hope the government maintains its commitment to legislate to tame these ‘addictive’ techniques they have developed to manipulate our attention.

Deirdre Toomey says:
Susan Greenfield has a history of making grand claims, typically not backed by peer-reviewed research. I hope that this is not another such claim.

Charles:
I think there are others who share her concerns, though may not put it in the way she has had. What we don’t know yet is whether social media causes mental ill health. What we do know is that there is a correlation. That those who use social media more heavily (and particularly girls) are more likely to be depressed.
It could be that those who are depressed are more likely to turn to social media, which then intensifies their depression by dint of their experience on it. this was something that seemed to be the case in research I wrote about last week. I think everyone is agreed that this is, as yet, still an under-researched area and we need more work to fully understand how it is affecting our children.

Mark Stringer says:
Children? Maybe Kidults. The under 45’s whose infantile obsession with anything that delays growing up.
I recall my apprenticeship days and one fella who started walking in a very tight circle looking skyward. He was in the throws of a seizure. I always think of his pre-seizure behaviour when I consider the infants among us who need the toys and tattoos as they are hypnotised by the plastic and flickering adverts.

Charles:
Hypnotic is a good word. I think some of the techniques being used by social media and gaming firms are deliberately designed to be hypnotic. While accepting the need for individual responsibility, I also do think these ‘hypnotic techniques’ need to be reined in for those people who are going to be vulnerable to such methods.

Средства массовой информации, TV о М.Шестове

Отзывы

Более 4 000 000 учеников по всему миру