10 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.
2. Addictive
1 in 11 children meet criteria for internet addiction; addictive devices should be banned. schools don’t give children “just a little” cocaine.
Playgrounds – The epicentre for child development, behaviour and learning
I just returned from Anahim Lake, a small community in the Chilcotin area of British Columbia and home to the Ulkatcho First Nations people. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you a journey toward child health and wellness that took place over the course of the past four years and comprised a number of community initiatives.
The profound consequences of AI’s attack on critical thinking.
When I read that Mattel had formed a partnership with OpenAI, I felt a profound sense of dread. As if the technology industry wasn’t making enough money on exploiting children, now they are embedding AI design into toys for toddlers.
Ethics 101 – Don’t experiment on children
Nelson Mandela’s quote “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children” gives me pause to wonder what he might say about our tech obsessed, screen addicted society today.
The Internet – We Can’t Make What’s Wrong, Right
If your child asked you if they could go to a place where they were going to learn how to harm themselves, for example learn how to cut, buy deadly drugs, be extorted sexually, meet pedophiles, choke themselves, suicide, bully others, kill people with guns and run over them with cars, give away their private data and in the process, become addicted to this place…would you let them go there? No!