Endangered Minds: Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About IIs today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains? In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture compromise our children's ability to concentrate and to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and an analysis of current educational practices, Healy presents in clear, understandable language: -- How growing brains are physically shaped by experience -- Why television programs -- even supposedly educational shows like Sesame Street -- develop "habits of mind" that place children at a disadvantage in school -- Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder -- How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born |
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... cortex and its subcortical connections . Although , believe it or not , we still await definitive research on media and the brain , I continue to believe this astonishing incidence of " illness " in kids results from several factors ...
... cortex and its subcortical connections . Although , believe it or not , we still await definitive research on media and the brain , I continue to believe this astonishing incidence of " illness " in kids results from several factors ...
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... cortex is changing all the time - I call it ' the dance of the neurons . ' This is true in the brains of cats , dogs , rats , monkeys , or man . >> 3 Many similar experiments have convinced other scientists of the changeability -- they ...
... cortex is changing all the time - I call it ' the dance of the neurons . ' This is true in the brains of cats , dogs , rats , monkeys , or man . >> 3 Many similar experiments have convinced other scientists of the changeability -- they ...
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Contents
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Malleable Minds Environment Shapes | 66 |
LANGUAGE FUZZY THINKING AND | 83 |
Sesame Street and the Death of Reading | 218 |
Disadvantaged Brains | 235 |
MINDS OF THE FUTURE | 275 |
Teaching the New Generation to Think Human and Computer Models at School and at Home | 308 |
Expanding Minds | 330 |
Notes | 347 |
35 | 348 |
The Starving Executive | 356 |
Index | 367 |
195 | 380 |
Reading Group Guide | 383 |
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