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Sean McHugh

Screen-time does not disrupt children's sleep, new study finds | University of Oxford - 0 views

www.ox.ac.uk/...hildrens-sleep-new-study-finds

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shared by Sean McHugh on 08 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • new research findings from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, has shown that screen time has very little practical effect on children’s sleep.
  • while the correlation between screen time and sleep in children exists, it might be too small to make a significant difference to a child’s sleep
  • Focusing on bedtime routines and regular patterns of sleep, such as consistent wake-up times, are much more effective strategies for helping young people sleep than thinking screens themselves play a significant role
Sean McHugh

The trouble knowing how much screen time is 'too much' - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...technology-42907037

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shared by Sean McHugh on 08 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • For now, anyone thinking about how much time using screens and social media is "OK" will ultimately have to make a personal judgement.
  • Rather than stating that social media was harmful, it suggested a more complex effect.
  • increasing the time spent using technology was linked to improved wellbeing
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  • the positive effect of regularly eating breakfast, or getting a proper night's sleep, was three times stronger.
  • the effects were small, with the positive effects of exercise being more significant.
  • A broader look at evidence provided by some other high quality studies again suggests the story is not clear-cut.
  • Playing electronic games, however, was not seen as leading to a greater risk of hyperactivity, or friendship or emotional problems
  • So how much time should we, or our children, spend looking at screens? It is difficult to be precise as different people spend time online in such different ways.
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Sean McHugh

The Kids (Who Use Tech) Seem to Be All Right - Scientific American - 0 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...-use-tech-seem-to-be-all-right

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shared by Sean McHugh on 19 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • Social media is linked to depression—or not. First-person shooter video games are good for cognition—or they encourage violence. Young people are either more connected—or more isolated than ever. Such are the conflicting messages about the effects of technology on children’s well-being. Negative findings receive far more attention and have fueled panic among parents and educators. This state of affairs reflects a heated debate among scientists. Studies showing statistically significant negative effects are followed by others revealing positive effects or none at all—sometimes using the same data set.
  • at a population level, technology use has a nearly negligible effect on adolescent psychological well-being
  • Technology use tilts the needle less than half a percent away from feeling emotionally sound. For context, eating potatoes is associated with nearly the same degree of effect and wearing glasses has a more negative impact on adolescent mental health.
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  • The size of the association documented across these studies is not sufficient or measurable enough to warrant the current levels of panic and fear around this issue.”
  • Unfortunately, the large number of participants in these designs means that small effects are easily publishable and, if positive, garner outsized press and policy attention,
  • put these extremely miniscule effects of screens on young people in real-world context
  • some positive behaviors such as getting enough sleep and regularly eating breakfast were much more strongly associated with well-being than the average impact of technology use.
  • Strikingly, one of the data sets Przybylski and Orben used was “Monitoring the Future,” an ongoing study run by researchers at the University of Michigan that tracks drug use among young people. The alarming 2017 book and article by psychologist Jean Twenge claiming that smartphones have destroyed a generation of teenagers also relied on the data from “Monitoring the Future.” When the same statistics Twenge used are put into the larger context Przybylski and Orben employ, the effect of phone use on teen mental health turns out to be tiny.
  • “The real threat isn’t smartphones. It’s this campaign of misinformation and the generation of fear among parents and educators.”
  • All of this is not to say there is no danger whatsoever in digital technology use. In a previous paper, Przybylski and colleague Netta Weinstein demonstrated a “Goldilocks” effect showing moderate use of technology—about one to two hours per day on weekdays and slightly more on weekends—was “not intrinsically harmful,” but higher levels of indulgence could be.
Sean McHugh

Digital media can enhance family life, says LSE study | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

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shared by Sean McHugh on 07 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • engaging in digital media activities together such as watching films, playing video games and keeping in touch via calls and messaging apps brings families together rather than dividing them
  • rather than displacing established ways of interacting, playing and communicating – digital media sit alongside them
  • the report’s authors highlighted parents’ concerns about “screen time”, which is a source of conflict in homes, though sleep and behaviour cause more disagreement. They also flag up a lack of support for parents who may face particular challenges regarding their child or family’s digital media use. Whereas on other issues they might turn to their own parents for advice, the digital generation gap means they are unlikely to be able to help
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  • traditional, shared activities persist in families, alongside newer digital activities
  • Rather than worrying about the overall amount of screen time children get, it might be better to support parents, many of whom are digital natives themselves, in deciding whether, when and why particular digital activities help or harm their child, and what to do about it
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