TECHNOLOGY & SOCIAL


begin doing so at that stage of their lives). He contends that joy and connection are becoming more difficult for all of us, and that view is supported by neuroscientists like Professor Susan Greenfield. The Oxford academic’s research, published in the 2015 bestseller Mind Change, shows how digital technologies have the power to physically rewire our brains, for good or bad. Most obviously, we are seeing attention spans shorten, as the nature of life online pushes us towards the immediate, and bombards us with competing demands for that attention. We want our pupils to know how to curl up and enjoy a good book, talk with a friend without notifications intruding, and enjoy the simple pleasures of daily life in our beautiful surroundings. Our boys and girls will spend much of their lives


online professionally, and interact with others on social media, but the social dilemma is that it is not there that they will learn to form true and lasting relationships, or develop the resilience to form real character and experience true joy in life. They need to learn to operate effectively as digital natives, but they also need to know how to remove the filter, and disconnect in order to truly connect.


Below: Students from Kingham Hill School


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