Its cause, she argues, is the steady encroachment of digital technologies into our lives. In Mind Change, Greenfield ties these failings together as a syndrome of our time. They are also narcissistic, superficial, passive, inattentive, uncentred, and aggressive. According to Susan Greenfield, a prolific Oxford neuroscientist, the natives are restless. Most of these students are digital natives, a generation that has grown up with the Internet, Facebook, immersive video games, and mobile devices. Academics speculate on whose lectures will be chipmunked the most. Many stay home, speeding up the recordings to whiz through the dull bits. Students sit, laptops open, alternating their gaze between the lectern and the web. Colourful slides and short videos accompany the spoken word, and this audio-visual feast can be ordered take-away, lecture recordings instantly downloadable from the university’s ‘learning management system’. Over at the academy, the lecture is not what it used to be.
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