USA Today – Chris Woodyard
“Time in front of screens – TV, video games, smartphones – hurts kids’ performance at school, right? Not necessarily. Some screen time is worse than others when it comes to kids and academic performance, according to a new analysis published in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics. Television viewing, followed by video games, were the two activities most tied to poor school performance, researchers showed in a review of 58 studies published over the decades. That kind of screen time affected both children and teens – though overall, teens’ performance seemed to suffer the most as screen time increased.” (more)