For many children in Western culture, that environment is providentially rich in what it gives, but paradoxically today, it may give too much and ask too little. Maggie Jackson27 made the thought-provoking point that when there is too much information overload, the building of background knowledge actually becomes more difficult. Like my speculations about a child’s working memory, she argues that because we are given so much input, we no longer expend the necessary time to rehearse, make analogies, and store incoming information in the same way, which affects what we know and how we draw
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