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Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good - The New York Times - 0 views

  • The rich have grown afraid of screens. They want their children to play with blocks, and tech-free private schools are booming. Humans are more expensive, and rich people are willing and able to pay for them.
  • classes have been replaced by software, much of the academic day now spent in silence on a laptop. In Utah, thousands of children do a brief, state-provided preschool program at home via laptop.
  • And children who spent more than two hours a day looking at a screen got lower scores on thinking and language tests,
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  • Human contact is becoming a luxury good.
  • Tech companies worked hard to get public schools to buy into programs that required schools to have one laptop per student, arguing that it would better prepare children for their screen-based future.
  • In Silicon Valley, time on screens is increasingly seen as unhealthy. Here, the popular elementary school is the local Waldorf School, which promises a back-to-nature, nearly screen-free education
Maria Gurova

Frustrated? Confused? Learning software could watch your face for signals and match con... - 0 views

  • they were able to show that automated facial expression recognition could be nearly as accurate as human recognition in analyzing a wider range of student movements and gestures.
  • emotionally-aware software isn’t without ethical and privacy questions, but it opens the door to technology that’s even more engaging and that fits more seamlessly into our lives.
  • types of technologies could be used to generate more personalized digital experiences
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  • emotion-sensing technology could build on the already booming field of adaptive learning software that assesses students’ mastery and delivers content appropriate to their skill level.
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    New face expression technology that is used for learning within computing classes, but can also be used in media and entertainment 
Maria Gurova

Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children - The New York Times - 0 views

  • Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children
  • “The average 8- to 10-year-old spends nearly eight hours a day with a variety of different media, and older children and teenagers spend more than 11 hours per day.”
  • Before age 2, children should not be exposed to any electronic media, the pediatrics academy maintains, because “a child’s brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens.”
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  • They need time to daydream, deal with anxieties, process their thoughts and share them with parents, who can provide reassurance.
  • Texting looms as the next national epidemic, with half of teenagers sending 50 or more text messages a day and those aged 13 through 17 averaging 3,364 texts a month, Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Center found in a 2012 study
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