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Comment by mallowdram

5 days ago

Narrowing the concept of what a task is at this age is extremely damaging and limiting to experience.

Naming sequences as "tasks" is tantamount to enslavement into an order of roboticism. This sounds like the beginning of a Bradbury story in which children revolt en masse.

Pretty rude? The entire approach here aimed at kids is beyond rude. It's mind-control.

“A growing body of evidence has found that children’s brains can structurally and functionally change due to prolonged media multitasking, such as diminished gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, where attentional control and complex decision making abilities reside, among other really important skills, like the development of empathy and understanding nonverbal social communication,”