The competition of screens for children's attention: effects on learning and sleep

Session moderated by Stéphane Mallat.
Each 30' paper will be followed by a 10' discussion.

Abstract

There is considerable evidence that screen work reduces reading quality and learning performance in both schoolchildren and adults. We will examine the causes of this phenomenon and present ways of reducing or even reversing its effects through adapted teaching practices. We will review the effects of reduced activity caused by the use of screens in leisure time on the cognitive development of children and adolescents.

Joëlle Proust

Joëlle Proust is CNRS research director emeritus at the Institut Jean-Nicod, École normale supérieure, Paris. After a doctoral thesis on the history and philosophy of logic, she explored the philosophical aspects of human and animal cognition. Over the past twenty years, her research has focused on metacognition : she led an interdisciplinary ESF and then European Research Council project on the biological and cultural evolution of metacognition. She is currently testing innovative teaching practices based on metacognitive studies at the Conseil Scientifique de l'Éducation Nationale.