Canada’s schools enter silent mode
Canada’s schools enter silent mode
- August 30, 2024
- Candice Odgers, CPIP and psychological science, The Globe and Mail, August 30, 2024
-----
“[T]he book’s repeated suggestion that digital technologies are rewiring our children’s brains and causing an epidemic of mental illness is not supported by science,” Candice Odgers, a professor of psychological science and informatics at the University of California, Irvine, wrote in the March issue of Nature. “Worse, the bold proposal that social media is to blame might distract us from effectively responding to the real causes of the current mental-health crisis in young people.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadas-student-cellphone-bans-face-a-crucial-test-on-their-first-day/.
-----
Would you like to get more involved with the social sciences? Email us at communications@socsci.uci.edu to connect.
Share on:
Related News Items
- Careet RightTeen mental health and technology
- Careet RightTraining the next generation of population science researchers
- Careet RightHow COVID Shaped a Resilient Generation of Kids
- Careet RightAnxious Generation's Jonathan Haidt privately told politician that researchers hid teen social media harm effects
- Careet RightAre Facebook and Instagram as bad for teens as we fear?