{"id":1653,"date":"2018-10-08T08:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/?page_id=1653"},"modified":"2018-10-08T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T03:21:09","slug":"refuse-to-use","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/refuse-to-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuse to Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Refuse to Use<\/em> is a world-wide <em>Movement<\/em> by responsible and futuristic thinking parents and teachers to ban all school-based technology for children under 12 years of age, and bring back tried and true methods of teaching. The 0-12 years are formative for brain and body development, and are a fragile time when deprivation and damage can be permanent. Four critical factors for enhancing child development, behaviour, and learning are movement, touch, connection, and nature. Technology stops children from engagement in these critical factors. Technology is sedentary, isolating, overstimulating, and results in child neglect, causing delays in child development, problematic and difficult to manage behaviours, as well as limited attention and learning ability. Teachers teach, not technology. Join the <em>Refuse to Use Movement<\/em> by reading \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/2014\/ten-reasons-to-not-use-technology-in-schools-for-children-under-the-age-of-12-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ten reasons to NOT use\u00a0technology in schools for children under the age of 12 years<\/a>\u201d, and signing below petition to show your support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[emailpetition id=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refuse to Use is a world-wide Movement by responsible and futuristic thinking parents and teachers to ban all school-based technology for children under 12 years of age, and bring back tried and true methods of teaching. The 0-12 years are formative for brain and body development, and are a fragile time when deprivation and damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movingtolearn.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}