Tablets are the ultimate shortcut tools: Unlike a mother reading a story to a child, for example, a smartphone-told story spoon-
feeds images, words, and pictures all at once to a young reader. Rather than having to take the time to process a mother’s voice into words, visualize complete pictures and exert a mental effort to follow a story line, kids who follow stories on their smartphones get lazy. The device does the thinking for them, and as a result, their own cognitive muscles remain weak. –“What Screen Time Can Really Do to Kids’ Brains,”
Liraz Margalit
Which quotation best describes how electronic devices deliver information to young users?
“Tablets are the ultimate shortcut tools”
“a smartphone-told story spoon-feeds images, words, and pictures”
“kids who follow stories on their smartphones get lazy”
“their own cognitive muscles remain weak”
