The work of Maggie Jackson featured in the Washington Post
Maggie Jackson's work for her book
Distracted was focal point of the piece, "Why it’s so hard to get kids’ attention, according to science (and what to do about it)."
❝ “Presence has become dramatically splintered because our devices are designed as insistent, intrusive systems of delivery, so any single object of our focus — an email, a text, a news alert, a child — competes with others every minute,” she says. “We experience overlapping, often conflicting commitments, and so have trouble choosing the nature and pace of our focus.” A study that came out in July shows that digital media use by teens seems to result in persistent attention issues. Jackson says research also indicates that even a phone that is turned off “undermines focus and problem solving” because the prospect of receiving a message or new information occupies space in our brains, even if we think we have separated ourselves from the phone. [WashingtonPost.com]
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