Hi tech has always brought questions of effectiveness; however enamored of the medium we may be, technology doesn’t improve learning and may do the opposite. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-schools-faces-questions-on-value.html
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Take three minutes to watch this video of a family who allowed their children no limits for 48 hours. See what happened: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/48-hour-screen-time-experiment-kids-limits/story?id=53410728
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Smartphones are destroying childhood happiness. Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/13/smartphone-ban-children-sleep-depression-suicide
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Smartphones are not helping youngsters! https://www.yourmodernfamily.com/scary-truth-whats-hurting-kids/
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Smart phone addiction influences, posture, manners, sense of reality, mood, and social skills. Read more in this report. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/smarter-living/bad-text-posture-neckpain-mood.html
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Systematic research on the effects of technology on our senses, physical bodies, and our psyches is missing from the agenda. Read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/opinion/academia-tech-algorithms.html
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Research indicates that the child’s brain while in front of a screen is responding as all brains respond on drugs. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8-hChptPAA
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The author of Toxic Childhood assembles research on the effects of iPads on toddlers and young children. Read about it here: http://www.somedaily.org/ipad-far-bigger-threat-children-anyone-realizes/
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The BBC reports on finding of the Organization for Economic Cooperation demonstrate that the best schools use little or no technology. Read the article here.
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A Cambridge study demonstrates that one extra hour of TV a day reduces capacities in students. Read the article here.
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