Publisher's Synopsis
THEY CAN SCROLL, BUT THEY CAN'T READ - AND IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT
A quiet catastrophe is unfolding in our classrooms. Children who navigate smartphones with instinctive ease struggle to parse a simple paragraph. Teenagers who spend seven hours a day glued to screens find themselves unable to concentrate long enough to finish a chapter. Teachers across the country report pupils who've lost the capacity for sustained reading - not because they've grown less clever, but because their minds have been fundamentally rewired. This isn't merely an educational issue. It's a human crisis. In Our Children Can't Read, Brendon Naicker reveals:- How digital devices are shortening attention spans to below that of a goldfish
- Why "multitasking" is a dangerous illusion - with neuroscience proving it damages memory and heightens anxiety
- The way algorithms reduce learning to bite-sized content and students to data points
- How screens are starving young minds of the depth, patience and contemplation that make us truly human
✔ The shocking truth about why today's teens read less (and retain less) than any previous generation
✔ How to recognise "digital dementia" - the alarming new cognitive consequences of tech overload
✔ The forgotten art of deep focus - and how to nurture it in an age of distraction
✔ Practical strategies to reset young minds, from "Sabbath pedagogy" to analogue learning spaces For exhausted parents, frustrated teachers and anyone who senses modern life is making us shallower:
