Generation ‘Screen’

Credits
Year: 2016
Running Time: 30 min
Production: NZZ Format
Broadcast: SRF 1 / 3 SAT
Director: Patricia Wagner, Cristina Karrer
Camera: Laurent Stoop
Editor: Patricia Wagner
Producer: NZZ Format, Tobias Wolff
With: Remo Largo, Daphne Bavelier

Instead of climbing trees, more and more children are spending their spare time playing computer games. Free play, which is important for the development of a child’s imagination and independence is increasingly being curtailed. Pre-school teachers are realising that children who play a lot of computer games are having trouble engaging in free play. Daphne Bavelier, a neuroscientist from Geneva, has examined the effect that computer games have on the brain, and she has discovered that certain games can have a positive impact. Paediatrician and author, Remo Largo, also sees a certain degree of potential in some computer games, but fears that many parents do not put in enough effort to familiarise themselves with them. We talk to one family and find that computer games lead to unease on almost every level.

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