“Technology is Making our Kids Stupid”, “We Now Have the Attention Spans of Goldfish”, “Mental Health Epidemic Caused by Social Media”, “Digital Platforms Cause Loneliness”, “Children as Young as Seven are Sexting”. These are familiar if rather sensationalist headlines. The media and researchers alike often adopt a negative rhetoric associated with digital device use, with particular focus on younger generations.
In this session:
- We’ll explore how digital device use can affect the brain – and subsequently how this causes behavioural change
- We’ll consider whether the messages we see in the press are founded and what this means to us as professionals in the education sector
- We’ll discuss the importance of empathy in our systems, experience and cultural design, but also in taking responsibility for the impacts of the technological products and the experiences we design and develop
Birmingham Tech Week is run in association with:
Speakers
Rachel Drinkwater
Senior Business Analyst (Digital Teaching & Learning)
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