“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…
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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/…
Ethan Zuckerman: An MIT Associate Professor Using Digital Media for Social Change
Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and an Associate Professor of the Practice at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the role of technology in international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. He…
Phones are making teens better behaved and less hedonistic
This Economist article talks about how teens are drinking less, getting into less trouble and having less sex than 20 years ago perhaps because their social needs are being met through technology. Parents are able to supervise their teens more now than ever with constant access to technology like location and data tracking apps. “Social media allow…
super cool books
Get The F*ck Off Your Screen “To shut down an argument over whether my kid could have more screen time (no, no and no), I sent myself to my room until I was ready to talk calmly. Then I got online to research Outward Bound programs and text my friend Lia about how much I hate…
Sherry Turkle's TED talk
Sherry Turkle talks about the need to use devices with awareness of other people and how devices are not a substitute for human relationships and conversations. She comments on how “People talk to [her] about the important new skill of making eye contact while texting” in order to be able to text while in class…
Parents…
An Apple a day really does keep parents away! This is a common “family” dinner time scene. Parents on their devices, doing work that i’m sure is important but is it more important that quality time with their children? Then the kids get out their phones because there anyone to talk to and soon enough…
Kids aren't the only ones who need screen-time limits
Here is an article about how parents are the ones that need limits on screen time, not just the kids.
A fictional story I wrote in 2012 about a family
An apple a day keeps my parents away! It is 2006 and the Kaminski’s are living in rural Russia. “Get in the tub already!” said Mrs. Kaminski as her reluctant 11 year old daughter Olga, gets in the wash basin. The family had to use a wash basin to wash and only changed the water…
An Apple a day keeps my parents away
How the iPhone changed my family. I wrote this in 2011, when I was 10 years old. Chapter 1: It all began with my dad It all started with my dad. When he first bought an iPhone 3 he got lost in the realm of these strange electronic devices that were brand new and…