Picture of kid making mobile phone from clay in Africa from Newsweek, over at my moblog

From this week’s European edition of Newsweek, which is all about tech, kids use of tech and how our tech is changing our brains:

“Is the stimulation of new media preparing kids for a future high-tech world—or turning them into antisocial, superficial dolts? There are no definitive answers. Only in the past few years have scientists begun to plumb children’s brains to see what goes on during the hours they spend engrossed in videogames or surfing the Web. What seems clear is that children are developing a far different set of skills than they had before. They are growing adept at handling visual information and multitasking. And the messaging free-for-all may actually help some kids overcome childhood awkwardness in relating to their peers.”

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