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Ten Reasons to Get Screens Out of Classrooms
1. Not Safe
The internet is rife with harmful content including violence, sex, self harm, racism, hate/rage bait; internet exposes children to pedophiles, trafficking, cyberbullying, drugs.
Ten reasons why video games should be banned for children under the age of 12
Video games are a ubiquitous form of entertainment in today’s children and youth, and while fun and exciting, have a darker side that parents, teachers and health professionals can no longer ignore.
Ten steps to successfully unplug children from technology
BECOME INFORMED regarding the effects of technology on child development and learning.
Technology overuse is related to child attention problems, poor academics, aggression, family conflict, impaired sleep, developmental delays, attachment disorders, impaired body image, obesity and early sexuality.
Tech Diet – Four Tech Tools To Help “Tech Fat” Families Reduce The Use Of Technology
While the benefit of technology is obvious, inherent risks of technology overuse by young children are unrecognized and largely ignored. The virtual world is devoid
Neuroscience of Video Game Violence – Cells That Fire Together, Wire Together
Every parent who has a child with an obsession or addiction to video games, is “on alert” following the recent family shooting in New Mexico
Profile of a Shooter – School and community intervention and prevention initiatives.
Guns, video games, isolation, and mental illness have all been implicated as causal factors in the recent school shooting by Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut.
Gunner, Gamer or Shooter – Which one can be controlled?
Hearts everywhere go out to families and friends of victims of the mass killing at Sandy Hook School. Bewildered as to why the shooter did
Tech Neglect – Precoccupation with technology results in injury and brain damage to children
A recent study by Dr. Bruce Perry with Child Trauma Academy in Texas revealed that children who are neglected by their parents have significantly smaller
Child Mental Disorders – Illness or Environment?
I was chatting with a mom this week about her son who has a diagnosis of adhd, and was suggesting some environmental interventions that might
Video Games Linked to Attention Problems
A study published in Pediatrics in 2010 found a correlation between the amount of time spent viewing TV and playing video games and subsequent attention problems in
Education Technology Displaces Literacy
This picture of a 3 year old girl in front of a laptop, is found on the home page of BC’s new educational plan advertising
Early Technology Use Limits Imagination
What would happen if you woke up one morning, and it was all gone…cell phone, computer, iPad, TV. A big earthquake wiped out all power,
Children Who Don’t Move, Can’t Learn
In order to achieve optimal physical and mental development, children need to move. Yet as adults have become more and more sedentary with their technologies,