ial networking sites and popular culture is creating a lack of the ability to sustain attention, process extended text, and focus on more than the trivial. This time the voice belongs to a Professor from Oxford.
As a consequence, the mid-21st century mind might almost be infantilised, characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity.
Read the comments – range from insightful to bizarre. Just the number of comments generated is interesting.
Again, the article offers no data in favor of the position taken. It seems very possible that both positions are over reaching – I am willing to say that kids are more socially focused and less educated in traditional skill areas. There are many scenarios that fit such outcomes ranging from things have gone terribly wrong to the skills being tested are less relevant than once may have been the case.