Sybil Kelly is a technology marketer and corporate communications professional, as well as a mother of a 13-year old son. Sybil’s daily struggle to moderate screen time for her son inspired her book “Get the F**k off That Screen,” and she is constantly looking for a balance between the benefits and detriments of the digital…
Olivia June: Hey! VINA’s Founder Uses Screens to Maximize Connections
Olivia June is the Founder and CEO of Hey! VINA, the tech company that connects, celebrates and empowers women. In 2016 she launched the award-winning app Hey! VINA, a social networking app often referred to as the “Tinder for (girl) friends”, that’s connected millions of women in 158 countries. Her academic career has been focused…
Students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens
Our work has revealed a significant discrepancy. Students said they preferred and performed better when reading on screens. But their actual performance tended to suffer. For example, from our review of research done since 1992, we found that students were able to better comprehend information in print for texts that were more than a page…
Silicon Valley Nannies are Phone Police for Kids
The fear of screens has reached the level of panic in Silicon Valley. Vigilantes now post photos to parenting message boards of possible nannies using cellphones near children. Which is to say, the very people building these glowing hyper-stimulating portals have become increasingly terrified of them. And it has put their nannies in a strange…
Limiting children’s recreational screen time to less than two hours a day linked to better cognition, study finds
Only one in 20 US children meet the full recommended guidelines on recreational screen time, physical activity and sleep Date: September 26, 2018 Source: The Lancet Summary: Limiting recreational screen time to less than two hours a day, and having sufficient sleep and physical activity is associated with improved cognition, compared with not meeting any…
The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected
New York Times Oct. 26, 2018 America’s public schools are still promoting devices with screens — even offering digital-only preschools. The rich are banning screens from class altogether. “It wasn’t long ago that the worry was that rich students would have access to the internet earlier, gaining tech skills and creating a digital divide. Schools…
A company that will pay you $100,000 to ditch your smartphone for a year
Ditch your smartphone and get $100K “did you know 1 out of 2 people say they couldn’t live without their smartphone? yikes. break the cycle with scroll-free life solutions™ by vitaminwater. how do I enter? it’s simple! share on twitter or instagram what you’d do instead of scrolling with hashtags #nophoneforayear and #contest. go scroll-free…
60 Minutes: Groundbreaking NIH Study Examines Effects of Screen Time on Kids
60 Minutes goes inside a landmark government study of young minds to see if phones, tablets and other screens are impacting adolescent brain development. If you have kids and wonder if all that time they spend on their smartphones endlessly scrolling, snapping and texting is affecting their brains, you might want to put down your…
Screen-time Tracking
Everyone in my family has this app and I have convinced many of my friends to download it as well. The results are extremely insightful. You don’t have to change your habits if they suit you but with this app, you will have information on your usage and give you the choice to change. https://inthemoment.io/…
Stanford’s “Just How Bad Is Kids’ Smartphone Addiction?”
“It’s the easiest babysitting hack known to modern adults attempting to pacify a fussy baby: Take a smartphone, find a game or show, put it in the child’s hands, and—lo and behold! The kid is quiet, eyes wide, and still. And that magic trick seems to extend to children who can crawl, tots who are…