HIDC: High Incidence Disabilities in Higher Education Conference

Are you smarter than the average teen when it comes to electronics? The fact that many of us said "no" means that we have one generation immersed in a digital world and another unaware of the dangers and the impact. This is not a good thing. The Internet may be the most important tool that allows a person to access all the world's existing knowledge and yet, it may be the most dangerous place that young people can access without guidance. So, without boundaries, and given the seductiveness of the medium, we have a generation whose rate of electronic addiction may be the most important public health concern that we have today. This session exposes some of the more common myths and the changes to the brain that we see emerging.