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Posted on 05/21/2026 10:51:41 AM PDT by JayGalt
C-SPAN coverage features cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding the impact of screen time and classroom technology on youth. In his testimony, Dr. Horvath warned lawmakers that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform previous generations across cognitive measures like attention, memory, and general IQ. He argued that introducing digital devices into learning environments has actively contributed to this cognitive decline, as human brains are not biologically wired to learn from screens. This is the first generation in human history that is getting DUMBER after being educated. This is the link to video or Dr Horvath's section of the hearing. https://x.com/i/status/2057144752617779243
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The full 2h video. His testimony starts at 1h11min. https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/lawmakers-hold-hearing-on-the-impact-of-screen-time-on-kids/671683
The magnitude of the decline, particularly in reading comprehension, is staggering.
All I have to say is — Lawmakers are a piss poor substitute for parental supervision.
All part of the plan to raise the age of using screens to 21.
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🚨 JUST IN: The Senate is GOING ON RECESS instead of staying to vote on and pass the ICE-CBP reconciliation package that only needs 50+1 votes
WTF?! They’re now going to MISS Trump’s June 1 deadline.
Recess lasts the next 10 days or so.
Un-freaking believable.
DO YOUR JOBS!
Let alone getting the SAVE America Act passed, we can barely even pass a simple 50+1 funding bill without SIGNIFICANT delays.
And the Senate Parliamentarian is partially to blame for this delay — allowed to stay by Leader Thune.
Serious change is needed in the Senate. TIME IS RUNNING OUT
This relates to computers being used in school noy at home.
looking at a computer or reading a book? both are “screen time”.
A lot of the hearing appears to have been about screen time in general. The 4-5min segment that I listened to and am reporting on was specifically about the use of technology in school (starting in 2010)correlating chronologically with the first ever decline in the cognitive ability of Ameriucan children (GenZ). This held through 80 countries, 5 hrs or more in school, 2/3 of a standard deviation drop. The last portion talks about why screen learning doesn’t work.
I posted this because it raises the alarm on computers being used in schools to substitute for classroom instruction.
If this goes forward, the next iteration will be the Dims preventing adults from accessing the internet ... for our health.
You don’t have to hang around social media very much to see how woefully ignorant the yutes have become on average.
Just what we need is more government intervention. The last two years has been so government interest in our lives that the tentacles are coming all over the place. So much for smaller government.
Our youth have been abandoned to the mercy of COVID hysteria, teachers unions, indoctrinated & poorly prepared teachers, activists and well meaning low information voters.
This professional’s testimony quantities what we see in the level of content and conversation. Society is getting dumber, unable to reason, apply logic or follow complex analysis.
I think that is not the point of this testimony. Certainly there is a push for the nanny state to make pronouncements and try to limit screen access by age. That is a deplorable overreach and I believe it’s pushed by people that want to have everyone’s digital footprint.
My point was the quantifiable effect of 5 hrs or more of screen time at school and the effect that has had on children’s learning & development. Separate issues.
Lawmakers are a piss poor substitute for parental supervision.
Lessons were presented on the Chromebook, nearly always very short, quizzes and tests were taken and graded on the Chromebooks and when all the assignments were completed, the kids were allowed to play approved games on the Chromebooks. No wonder reading skills and attention spans have dropped so much.
And, of course, if a kid didn’t feel like working, he or she could say, my Chromebook isn’t charged, or I can’t log into the lesson and would expect to get to sleep or draw pictures all hour. I found the whole experience maddening.
I would agree that computer learning is not as effective as books, pencil, paper, and in person. It’s a lazy substitute.
Bring back the Blue Books.
I always liked it when I was a kid because you could go faster. It has a place. The research shows that when used as an overall substitute the results are disastrous.
I was really shocked at the level of decline. The examination company had to change the standardized test on reading comprehension to individual sentences rather than paragraphs because the scores were trending so low.
You have never read a book if you say something as ridiculous as that.
The goal is to make it that we will no longer be able to log in FR "anonymously".
HOW MANY DAYS A YEAR DO THESE LAZY TROUBLEMAKERS ACTUALLY SHOW UP FOR WORK?
I HOW ABOUT THE 2 or 3 THAT HAVEN’T BEEN THERE FOR WEEKS???
EVEN HARDER TO LEARN CURSIVE ON A LAPTOP
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