Your Morning Boost - 🧠 Digital Drain: How Social Media is Rewiring Student Brains (and 3 Ways Leaders Can Fight Back)

Episode summary

In this episode of Your Morning Boost: A School Leadership Podcast: Student attention spans are shrinking, and the science is clear: constant, fast-paced social media use is fundamentally impacting young people's ability to sustain the deep focus required for complex reading and long-term memory. This isn't just a distraction—it's a neurological shift. In this essential episode of Your Morning Boost, we dive into the latest research from Ed Week (via the Fitting Five newsletter) on how social media erodes cognitive endurance.