The wealthy can afford to opt out of having their data and their attention sold as a product. The poor and middle class don’t have the same kind of resources to make that happen. Screen exposure starts young. And children who spent more than two hours a day looking at a screen got lower scores…
Author: KaiaRae
This Friendship Has Been Digitized
Each year, more and more of our lives take place in the digital space. The average teenager spends up to nine hours a day online. My freshman college students tell me they are actually on screens for around 12 hours a day, since almost all homework is also now online. According to a 2018 Pew…
Sara Negrin: A Screen-Loving High-Schooler’s Perspective on the Digital Era
Sara is a high-school Senior from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sara is an active screen user but is conscious of the many different ways it affects us and our relationships. Sara and I met on an Outward Bound backpacking trip last summer and just happened to start talking one day on the trails about the topic…
Tristan Harris: The Manipulative Tricks Tech Companies Use To Capture Your Attention
A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinker Tristan Harris. From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they’re all competing for one thing: your attention. Harris shares how these companies prey on our psychology for their own profit and…
Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain But now, the physical world excites me, too — the one that has room for boredom, idle hands and space for thinking. I no longer feel phantom buzzes in my pocket or have dreams about checking my Twitter replies. I look people in…
10 girls. 14 days without any social media. Here’s how they fared.
This sounds like my study! 10 girls. 14 days without any social media. Here’s how they fared. “I got my homework done faster, I slept better, I wasn’t as stressed out, and I was more productive,” she said.
States Consider Longer School Recess, and the Adults Aren’t Complaining
States Consider Longer School Recess, and the Adults Aren’t ComplainingTeachers have already seen encouraging results, reporting fewer disciplinary actions, enhanced test scores and improvement in children’s overall health. And just last week, youngsters from Arkansas, where a similar move is also being considered, sent letters to state legislators asking they be given a longer recess…
France has banned all children under 15 from using their phones in school
France has banned all children under 15 from using their phones in school Under the new law, students have to turn their phones off during the day or put them in lockers, the Associated Press reported. Schools will independently deal with the logistics of how students will be kept away from their phones, the news…
Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This
“Cal Newport is a computer scientist who also writes about the impact of technology on culture, I think it’s important to highlight the magnitude of this shift, as it seems increasingly clear to me that Mr. Jobs probably got it right the first time: Many of us would be better off returning to his original…
New York Times: “This Is Your Brain Off Facebook.”
“Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It’s not so bad.) The world’s most common digital habit is not easy to break, even in a fit of moral outrage over the privacy risks and political divisions Facebook has created, or…