Teens talk about their “brain rot” online. While there isn’t data to back it up, per se, experts do have concerns about the ...

It’s critical that students know how to use digital content, but as students have more access to information, it’s also critical that they know how to evaluate that information with a discerning eye.

All that time you spend online can harm your cognitive health and make it harder to pay attention, concentrate, and learn, experts say. “Brain rot” has been named Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year. Brain ...

IF YOU FEEL YOUR KIDS ARE SPEAKING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE FROM YOURS THESE DAYS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. SOCIAL MEDIA, BRAIN ROT, MEMES AND PHRASES ARE TAKING OVER AND SHAPING HOW KIDS ENGAGE AND INTERACT.

Imagine a time traveler from the quaint, analog world of the 1990s arriving in 2025. They wouldn’t just be shocked by our technology; they’d be utterly baffled by our behavior. The subtle, pervasive ...

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I was recently sitting with my friend’s 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. I’d wanted to get a kid’s perspective on “brain rot,” Oxford University Press’ 2024 word of ...

Click-bait and other attention-grabbing online content can cause brain rot in large language models, a new study finds. Brain rot isn’t just for humans anymore. The thoroughly modern affliction also ...