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According to a recent survey, excess screen time does not explicitly hamper learning capabilities, but can create attention deficiency and extreme mood alterations in children, which in turn disrupts learning capabilities.

With schools shut down, and most children holed up inside their houses all day, most are increasingly dependent on the digital medium for both education and recreation. Though the digital medium can be beneficial in many ways, providing access to quality education even during these uncertain times, increased exposure to the screen can be harmful to a child’s health in myriad ways.

During the lockdown of course, we shouldn’t forget how necessary screen time is for children’s education and how useful technology has been to restore some sense of normalcy, but the problem arises when there is excess of recreational screen time.

According to a recent survey, excess screen time does not explicitly hamper learning capabilities but can create attention deficiency and extreme mood alterations in children which in turn disrupts learning capabilities. “It is an established fact that active learning is the best way to retain information, so if they stare at a screen all day then their attention spans will decrease. They will have issues concentrating in class which will affect learning.