Smartphones are making us dumb
SCHOOL PROGRAM
SMARTPHONES ARE MAKING US DUMB
by
DR. MARK WILLIAMS
Looking for ways to help your students cope better with smartphone dependence?
Looking for ways to help your students cope better with smartphone dependence?
What will be covered?
In an informative and challenging presentation, Dr Mark covers:
• The rise of the smart phone.
• The neuroscience of learning and memory, and why smartphones are damaging.
• The neuroscience of addiction, why smartphones are addictive and how to avoid it.
• The neuroscience of empathy and why smartphones are having an impact.
• The relationship between screen use, depression and suicide.
• Ways to minimise the potential effects.
He will end with a series of helpful tips and strategies that we can all easily implement to get smartphone use under control for both adults and teenagers.

This talk is an adaptation of a keynote presentation that I have given in a variety of environments.
There are versions appropriate for primary school students (30 min), high school students (50 min), or adults (90 min).
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