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Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"

NYU professor Jonathan Haidt argued that technology is harming the social development and mental health of children. He was interviewed by Harvard University Center for Digital Thriving co-director and author Emily Weinstein.
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  • @theotherway1639
    @theotherway1639Ай бұрын

    The problem may be that it's too late, probably. It would take a serious shift in cultural conditions to eliminate smartphone use and social media from children's lives. There's a mindfulness workbook called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels that might be a good start.

  • @stoneneils

    @stoneneils

    Ай бұрын

    All it will take is for one upcoming generation to see it as their parents' thing....old school...lame...which it is.

  • @Rollins-ek3li

    @Rollins-ek3li

    5 күн бұрын

    Social media is so deeply infused in our lives and educational system. It will take a shift of high magnitude to eliminate phones in schools. In my opinion, our congressional leaders should’ve stepped in long ago. Unfortunately, the train has left the station and is running a million miles per hour down the track. For example, as a college professors, we are being primed and encouraged by administration to integrate students’ iPhones in class as a learning tool. However, it is impossible, as students’ attention is easily and quickly hijacked by their social media and incoming texts. Faculty are raging about this issue, which has been compounded by the use of artificial intelligence to cheat. Many of us have given up in utter frustration as our concerns fall on administrations deaf ears …..

  • @stoneneils

    @stoneneils

    5 күн бұрын

    @@Rollins-ek3li Social media is not infused at all with our lives..zero. Its only addicts who say that "Alcohol is so infused with our lives I don't know how we'd gety along with it" . Same thing. Many people have no phones, no accounts, they are doing jut fine.

  • @Rollins-ek3li

    @Rollins-ek3li

    2 күн бұрын

    @@stoneneils If social media is not so tightly woven into our culture, then why are we having this exchange, on KZread, a social media site. Why don’t we just write letters and be happy with getting a PenPal ? Why don’t we tell our employers we will not work from a computer or use a cell phone ? Why don’t we launch a campaign to have college students banned from using a computer and force them to go to the library to read books ? Why ? Because technology has been injected into everything ….