{"id":268748,"date":"2010-02-02T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mindhacks.com:\/\/219f66cbe6b01d7b180cada7619a6c7e"},"modified":"2010-02-02T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:03:34","slug":"fight-club-debate-on-computers-and-kids-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268748","title":{"rendered":"Fight club debate on computers and kids&#8217; brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/boxing_gloves.jpg\" width=\"105\" height=\"112\" \/>On Thursday, I shall be taking part in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/science\/article7012457.ece\">live debate<\/a> hosted by <i>The Times Online<\/i> entitled &#8216;Is screen culture damaging our children&#8217;s brains?&#8217; where I will be debating psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/tracyalloway.com\/\">Tracey Alloway<\/a> who recently made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/twitter\/6147668\/Facebook-enhances-intelligence-but-Twitter-diminishes-it-claims-psychologist.html\">headlines<\/a> by suggesting Facebook &#8216;enhances intelligence&#8217; but Twitter &#8216;diminishes it&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It one of those online chat things but you are welcome to sign up and take part. It happens at 1pm UK time which turns out to be far-too-early-o&#8217;clock Colombian time so I may be in my dressing gown. Don&#8217;t let that put you off.<\/p>\n<p>An article on the same topic will also be coming out on Thursday which should help set the scene and which I&#8217;ll link to when it appears.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/science\/article7012457.ece\">Link<\/a> to &#8216;Is screen culture damaging our children&#8217;s brains?&#8217; debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I shall be taking part in a live debate hosted by The Times Online entitled &#8216;Is screen culture damaging our children&#8217;s brains?&#8217; where I will be debating psychologist Tracey Alloway who recently made headlines by suggesting Facebook &#8216;enhances intelligence&#8217; but Twitter &#8216;diminishes it&#8217;. It one of those online chat things but you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}