Dopamine, Smartphones & You: A battle for your time
by Trevor Haynesfigures by Rebecca Clements “I feel tremendous guilt,” admitted Chamath Palihapitiya, former Vice President of User Growth at Facebook, to an audience of Stanford students. He was responding to a question about his involvement in exploiting consumer behavior. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works,” he explained.
“I Was Devastated”: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence. With an Oxonian wisp of hair framing his chiseled face, Berners-Lee appears the consummate academic—communicating rapidly, in a clipped London accent, occasionally skipping over words and eliding sentences as he stammers to convey a thought.
'How a smartphone saved my mother's life'
Image copyright Healthy.io As the smartphone falls in price while its capabilities improve, it is becoming a valuable tool in the diagnosis of a growing number of diseases and ailments around the world. When Yonatan Adiri's mother fell down a bank and briefly lost consciousness when travelling in China, an initial diagnosis suggested she had a few broken ribs, but nothing more serious. Doctors were keen to fly her to Hong Kong for treatment. But Yonatan's father was worried and took photos of the CT [computerised tomography] scans of the injuries, emailing them to his son. Yonatan showed the images to a trauma doctor, who instantly diagnosed a punctured lung.
Kids & Tech: Tips for Parents in the Digital Age
In a world where children are "growing up digital," it's important to help them learn healthy concepts of digital use and citizenship. Parents play an important role in teaching these skills. Make your own family media use plan. Media should work for you and within your family values and parenting style. When used thoughtfully and appropriately, media can enhance daily life.
Forget Screen Time Rules — Lean In To Parenting Your Wired Child, Author Says
The overuse of technology has overtaken drugs, sex and bullying as the biggest parental worry, according to the annual Brigham Young and Deseret News American Family Survey. But what are we actually supposed to be doing about it? Jordan Shapiro, a Temple University professor whose background is in philosophy and psychology, has a prescription that might surprise you. In his new book, The New Childhood, his argument is that we're not spending enough screen time with our kids. "One of the things I suggest in the book is that kids should be starting on social media much younger," he says. And, play more video games with your kids, too.
Parents Can Play Important Role in Teaching Children About Technology
You can start at home by identifying your values and how you want to incorporate technology into your family’s life. What role do you want technology to play in your house? In your life? How can technology play a positive role? It is important for parents to have conversations with their kids about technology and values. What do you like about technology?
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Technology and Parenting: How Parental Smartphone Use May Affect Kids
‘The whole world is in your lap’ The study involved in-depth interviews with 35 caregivers, including moms, dads and grandmothers. Participants consistently expressed an internal struggle between multitasking mobile technology use, work and children, information overload and emotional tensions around disrupting family routines, such as mealtime. As one mom in a focus group described it, “The whole world is in your lap.” Some caregivers also reported a trickle-down effect. Their emotional response to whatever they were reading on their mobile device — whether it was a work email or bad news — sometimes affected how they responded to children.
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Parents Have More of a Tech Problem Than Kids
We aren’t always the best example. Restrictions and limits are good. For instance, in my house we have a rule of “no phones at least 30 minutes before bed.” However, if I expect my kids to stick to this rule, I have to do it myself.
Should Artists Shop or Stop Shopping?
May 21, 2018 While doing research for this piece on the artist Sara Cwynar, I came across an interview which showed photographs of her studio. One of the photographs featured drippings from candles—she was melting candles, and layering the drips, and the drips would eventually be moved and put on a canvas.
Parents Who Use Technology During Family Time May Adversely Affect Children's Behavior, A New Study Says
While much of today's discussion about kids and technology revolves around The Youths being too into their smartphones and tablets, it turns out parents who use technology during family time may be adversely affecting their kids' behavior and overall relationship with them. According to a new study, parents who are on their phones or watching TV during activities like meals can cause their children to go into Angelica Pickles mode, and we shouldn't blame the kiddos for doing so. The study, done by Brandon T. McDaniel of Illinois State University and Jenny S. Radesky of the University of Michigan Medical School and published in the journal Pediatric Research, looked into what the researchers call "technoference," where technology interrupts relationships, according to a report on the study posted on Science Daily. To investigate technoference, researchers worked with 172 two-parent families who each had at least one child five years of age or younger.
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