Insights from Cris Rowan,
Child Development Expert
Insights from Cris Rowan,
Child Development Expert
Insights from
Cris Rowan,
Child Development Expert
Children are the future of our planet, yet the ways in which we are raising and educating children with technology are no longer sustainable. Sedentary, overstimulated, isolated and neglected, today’s child has an alarming increase in attachment and developmental disorders. We have unconsciously created a virtual reality that children now call “home”, a reality devoid of critical factors for growth and success: movement, touch, human connection and nature.
Now is the time to plant the seed for children to grow and learn in new and conscious ways. Moving Beyond the Screen requires team strategies which are research evidenced. Join Moving to Learn on this epic journey in creating sustainable futures for all children.
Recent Articles
Attention All Schools! Request for Funding Letter – Apply to technology industry for funds for healthy alternatives to screens.
Executive Summary The rapid escalation of screen-based technologies in homes and schools has resulted in significant negative outcomes for students, teachers and parents.
Corporate Corruption
Corporate Corruption – Technology, data and pharmaceutical corporations have infiltrated the health and education sectors causing extensive and irreputable harm to children.
Why Screens Are Bad – All time spent on screens harms child growth and success
Overuse of entertainment-based screen technologies including social media, video games and pornography, has both direct and indirect, long reaching impact on children and youth.
Screens in Schools Policy Guidelines – Open Letter to Education and Health Governments
Below policy guidelines were forwarded to all Canadian Health and Education Ministers on July 10, ‘23 For responses from Ministers of Education,please see below. For
Healthy Education – Why screens in schools failed and what to do NOW to create solid foundations for literacy and learning.
Teachers teach, screens entertain. It’s that simple. Promises made by edtech to schools were 3-fold: individualized learning, improved student engagement and cost effectiveness.
The Taker – Profiling the devastating impact of tech industry greed on humanity
A 2014 utopian movie called The Giver offers a surprising analogy to what is happening right here, right now by the sanctioned onslaught by the tech industry on everything human.
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Cris Rowan, BScOT, BScBi, SIPT
An outspoken critic on the impact of technology on human development, behavior, and productivity
Cris Rowan, biologist with 35 years experience as a pediatric occupational therapist is passionate about changing the ways in which humans use and interact with technology. Cris has developed a concept termed Balanced Technology Management (BTM) where humans strive to manage balance between healthy activity and technology.
She works globally and locally and has cross culture relevance from indigenous and developing communities. Cris is a visionary, who clearly sees that the ways in which humans are using technology are not sustainable, and the time to act is now. Activist, advocate, author, and prolific speaker, Cris helps people move from the virtual, back into the real world.