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- Kids Understand More From Books Than Screens, But That’s Not Always the CaseResearch demonstrates that children (adults, too!) comprehend and retain more when reading a printed page than when reading online.
- International Baccalauriate Schools have allowed ChatGPT as an acceptable source on written papersMuch media attention has emerged on the new technology “ChatGPT” and its impact on student work especially in high schools. Questions put to students for homework and testing can be answered by AI by “simply pressing a button” as one International Bacculauriat (IB) teacher put it. IB schools have announced their intention to allow students ...
- Surgeon General bans use of social media for kids under 14 years oldAt long last, someone in leadership has stated out loud that Social Media is not fitting for youngsters under the age of 14. The pandemic pushed many children onto social media and gaming sites as the only social outlet available to them. Many parents have expressed dismay over “losing their child,” because the addictive nature of ...
- Does media watching inhibit the development of executive functioning?This kind of study on screen watching shows up the treacherous nature of trying to tease out cause from effect
- ‘Is This Going to Piss People Off?’ How to Make Tough Tech DecisionsAs public schools across the United States prepare for full reopening in the fall of 2021, they face many decisions about how to use technology after the pandemic year of “hybrid learning.” Fraught with high costs and a plethora of opinion, the research they have done is one help to proceeding responsibly. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ...
- Is Your Child Overstimulated from Too Much Screen Time?The impact on a child’s nervous system from screen technology sets in long before addiction has settled in. Read here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-wealth/201711/is-your-child-overstimulated-too-much-screen-time Child Psychiatrist, Victoria Dunkley, M.D., author of Reset your Child’s Brain, and doctor featured on “Good Morning America,” and as a steady blog writer for Psychology Today, for her success in “unplugging” children from screens, ...
- What Photos From 1948 Can Teach Us About Doctors, Patients And ScreensWhat is the meaning of a “healing relationship” with a doctor or other health care provider? Here, one doctor wonders about it: https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2019/06/07/electronic-medical-records-country-doctor-life-magazine
- Why Social Media is Ruining Your RelationshipsThis is more reflection than hard data but an important reflection of social media and its influence on our social relationships. Worth a read!
- How (and When) to Limit Kids’ Tech UseWondering how to limit the use of screens in your child’s (and your own) life? Here’s a good idea or two! https://www.nytimes.com/guides/smarterliving/family-technology
- Students who use digital devices in class ‘perform worse in exams’MIT studies indicate students do better on exams when they prepare without a computer or an electronic device. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/may/11/students-who-use-digital-devices-in-class-perform-worse-in-exams
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| Dr. Richard Freed | How Waldorf School Media Policy Fosters Children’s Healthy Development Here is a valuable article by working child psychologist, Dr. Richard Freed, on the effects of screen addiction on children’s health, mental and physical. Dr. Richard Freed has written extensively on his clinical experience with “lost souls” to video games and technology addiction. He is an enthusiast for Waldorf education, admiring the policies we have in place protecting youngsters from screen time! | 188.1 KiB |
| Janice D'Arcy | AAP reaffirms no screen time for young children | 70.2 KiB |
| Tony Dokoupil | Is the Web Driving Us Mad? The new research into the Net’s negative effects. | 318.7 KiB |
| Thomas Fuchs Ludger Woessmann | Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence The relationship between students’ educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at home and at school | 291.5 KiB |
| Susan R. Johnson, MD, FAAP | Strangers in Our Homes: TV and Our Children’s Minds | 319.0 KiB |
| Claudia Wallis | The impacts of media multitasking on children’s learning & development: Report from a research seminar A group of scholars assembled for a one-day seminar on media multitasking and its impact on children’s learning and development at Stanford University on July 15, 2009. | 899.1 KiB |
