{"id":93048,"date":"2026-08-18T20:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93048"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:09:37","slug":"our-children-are-less-cognitively-capable-says-neuroscientist-who-wants-to-cut-screen-use-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/18\/our-children-are-less-cognitively-capable-says-neuroscientist-who-wants-to-cut-screen-use-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our children are less cognitively capable,\u2019 says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2adJSL.img?w=768&h=614&m=6&x=94&y=68&s=714&d=524\" alt=\"The neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath argues for reducing screen use in schools \u2018if we want our kids to have deep transferrable knowledge in our heads\u2019. Photograph: sturti\/Getty Images\" width=\"625\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions for under-16s, . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/general\/our-children-are-less-cognitively-capable-says-neuroscientist-who-wants-to-cut-screen-use-in-schools\/ar-AA2adwX1?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=6a84b7d2dd9443948f9695a77e8e5025&ei=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Jared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sceen-use-in-schools.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93050,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93048\/revisions\/93050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}