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The danger, she suggests, is that children might miss out on fundamental cognitive skills when learning is overly reliant on devices. She shares her anecdote of a time when she struggled to recall her son’s phone number, realizing that in a digital age, memory may become obsolete because information is stored and retrieved effortlessly on devices.
The Importance of Memorization and Cognitive Exercise
An illustrative contrast is drawn between remembering phone numbers in the past and how children today rely on stored data. The speaker recalls how their parents’ landline number remains committed to memory decades later, whereas modern children might never memorize such details due to dependence on smartphones.