Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

There's where you're going to get your correlation is a lot of people think their concentration, their attention is kind of going down.

Realistically, if you go into labs, it's not that far down.

And you could say that probably came after a lot of the tech stuff.

So here's an interesting kind of fact.

If you take how long a kid spends on a screen, this is an average 8 to 18-year-old across the US.

Per year, they will spend about 450 hours every year learning from a screen, which is massive.

That's way more than most people think.

But they will also use that exact same screen to passively consume rapidly switching media for over 2,500 hours every single year.

So basically, it's just straight training.

If all you're doing is using a tool with the attention economy, constantly flipping, constantly jumping, now I sit you in front of that tool and say, time to focus and learn.

You make it about six minutes till you go back to open a tab, look at this.

It's like Pavlov's dog.

I don't think their attention span caused anything.

I think we've basically ruined their attention span by the tool we're using.

Get rid of the tool.

They can still sit there for three hours and watch a movie if they have no distractions.

They can still read if they learn how to do it.

We're just not teaching that anymore.

And that's where you, school used to be seen as a unique context.

There's a teacher up in Canada named Andrew Cantor Rudi.