Week 9 Post 2 Technologies Foster Short Attentions

As I am doing online research for other assignment, I discovered something interesting that caught my attention about ICTs. Jaffrey Freed, who is the author of Right-Brained Kids in a Left-Brained World, writes that one of the factor for the increased number of children with short attention span is because of our generation children has been saturated with different types of technologies that develop a short attention span. The damage of the focus in the brain in playing computer games or watching too much TV. The constant the sound effects, the flash colors, and changing of images contribute to changing the wiring of the brain by push a left-brained learner towards becoming right-brained learner. He also mentioned further that educational system is designed for the left brained learner, therefore technology as the tool of entertainment is essential to evaluate and observe (Major, 2013)