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Phil Taylor

Which Generation is Most Distracted by Their Phones? - 0 views

  • Adults are as addicted—if not more addicted—to technology as teenagers.  
  • adults’ smartphone addiction telepressure: “the combination of a strong urge to be responsive to people at work through message-based [information and communications technologies and] a preoccupation with quick response times.”
  • It’s worth considering: When we criticize teens who are glued to their screens, are we offering wise advice? Or are we projecting our own mixed feelings onto them?
Phil Taylor

We are not addicted to smartphones, we are addicted to social interaction - 0 views

  • Healthy urges can become unhealthy addictions
  • Turning off push notifications and setting up appropriate times to check your phone can go a long way to regain control over smartphone
  • workplace policies "that prohibit evening and weekend emails" are also important
Phil Taylor

The data on children's media use: An interview with Michael Robb - Rafael Heller, 2018 - 0 views

  • they’re much more likely to say that spending time interacting with each other online has a positive impact on their social-emotional lives than a negative one.
  • , we found that for all the public attention to the amount of time kids spend with digital media, parents are logging almost as many hours as their kids
  • Generally speaking, the press coverage of these issues is not well balanced, and the public mostly hears negative and alarming stories about cell phone addiction and cyberbullying and children holed up alone in their rooms.
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  • When journalists cover media-related topics, they tend to get carried away, scaring parents about everything from technology addiction to video games’ supposed connection to school shootings
  • technology addiction, and the issue ended up being much more complicated than I expected. For example, we found that among researchers and psychologists, there’s no real agreement as to what technology addiction is, how it could be measured, or how prevalent it might be.
  • it’s clear that multitasking impairs people’s ability to focus,
Phil Taylor

Will Wearable Computers Make Our Tech Addictions Even Worse? - ReadWrite - 0 views

  • The tech is going to evolve more rapidly than laws, etiquette or certainly the human brain itself. The era of wearable computing is coming regardless of how ready we are.  
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    A role for educators - teach balance and focus
Phil Taylor

A Rebuttal To Simon Sinek About The Millennial Paradox - Wolfe2018 - Tremr - 0 views

  • turn to social media, to interact with other humans. But this whole issue is not just Millennials, it's society in general that appear to be addicted to their social media
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    " turn to social media, to interact with other humans. But this whole issue is not just Millennials, it's society in general that appear to be addicted to their social media"
Phil Taylor

Panicked about Kids' Addiction to Tech? - NewCo Shift - 0 views

  • children learn values and norms by watching their parents and other caregivers.
  • Once you begin saying out loud every time you look at technology, you also realize how much you’re looking at technology. And what you’re normalizing for your kids.
  • Teenagers loathe hypocrisy. It’s the biggest thing that I’ve seen to undermine trust between a parent and a child.
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  • When there is a disconnect between parent and child’s views on a situation, the best thing a parent can do is try to understand why the disconnect exists.
Phil Taylor

Kidscreen » Archive » Parents are screen addicts, too-but that's not the whol... - 0 views

  • Today’s teens live in both a real and virtual community, and the latter has infinite libraries and schools, radio stations, shopping malls, game arcades and much more. Their time in that community can’t be quantified, because it’s entirely integrated into their lives. It shapes and reflects their identities.
  • I believe that our interactions with technology have become so instinctual and embedded that we can’t accurately answer a “how many minutes” question.
Phil Taylor

Pocket-Based Learning: My Cellphone Classroom | Powerful Learning Practice - 1 views

  • I see the “addiction” students have to their cell phones as an opportunity to engage in learning since I view cell phones as another teaching tool, not a distraction.
  • our classroom, we use our cell phones and other devices primarily in a literacy development fashion.
  • allowing cell phones in classrooms provides the opportunity to discuss proper cell phone etiquette as well as “netiquette.”
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