Education News – POLYMNIA HADJIPANAYIOTOU
“A Microsoft study of 2,000 participants revealed that pocket-sized devices and digital content omnipresence has compromised people’s attention span, which is now estimated to be less than nine seconds – that is, shorter than the attention span of a goldfish. Fifteen years earlier, people’s attention span was estimated at twelve seconds, but today’s digitally driven lifestyles have triggered an attention span shrinkage. As a result individuals are having a hard time focusing on a single task. The report showed that “[Surveyed participants] with more digital lifestyles struggle to focus in environments where prolonged attention is needed.””(more)