My new prediction: an entire generation will grow up dumber than now – due to the Dumbphone

Jean Twenge’s brilliant essay Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?is a must read for anyone working in education, youth care or dealing with medialiteracy (#mediawijsheid). I reminds me of the PEW survey in 2012 (!) about Youth in 2020 to which I contributed. In that survey, I (plus a lot of other global experts) predicted exactly…