Finding Balance

Finding
Balance
Part 3
May 14, 2018

Teacher
Gifted Ed Consultant
Continuing Education Teacher
Science & Tech Resource Teacher
e-Learning Consultant
Student Success Teacher
1989 - Married
1991 - Daughter
1994 - Daughter
2003 - Son
2007 - The Clever Sheep
2008 - Teacher 2.0 Podcast
2010 - TedXOntarioEd
2012 - UnPlug’d
2014 - Microsoft Expert Educator
2017 - Free Agency
LIFE - Athlete
LIFE - Brother
LIFE - Twin
LIFE - Komoka 
Special Education
Collaborative Projects
Creative Commons
Passion-Based Learning
Design Thinking
Detroit Tigers
Golf
Rush
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Ode to the Crazy Ones
Rodd Lucier

The Quest
for Attention
Part 1
April 9, 2018

Tech
Companies
Users
customers
Eyeballs
Shareholders
Device makers
App Developers
Engagement
The  
Tools  
are  
Free!!
 
If you Pay attention

“If you want to maximize addictiveness, all tech
designers need to do is link a user’s action (like
pulling a lever) with a variable reward. You pull a lever
and immediately receive either an enticing reward  
(a match, a prize!) or nothing. Addictiveness is
maximized when the rate of reward is most variable.”
Tristan  
Harris
Founder Centre for Humane Technology
Formerly of Apple, Wikia, Apture, Google

Tristan Harris
on Snapstreaks and Habits

“
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE ?
“Did I just get an alert!”
“What’s under the red notifications?”
“Let me refresh…”
“Do people approve/agree?”
“Who liked my stuff?”

“Fake brittle popularity leaves you more vacant and empty.”
Chamath
PaliHapitiya
Venture Capitalist
Formerly Facebook Coder

Allia
Griffin
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
Santa Clara University
“My experience has been that no matter how
invested a student may be in a class discussion
or lecture, if something on their desk or in their
pocket dings, rings or vibrates - they will lose
focus.”

“You’re part of a controlled set of experiments
that are happening in real time across you and
millions of other people.”
Ramsey
Brown
Co-Founder of Dopamine Labs
Background in Neuroscience and Coding

Connected
but ALONE
Part 2
April 30, 2018

Byron
Reeves
Media Psychologist
Stanford University
"To view three hours of content, on average, I am
turning that phone on and oﬀ 300 times a day…”
"If you put software on laptop computers and
smartphones to measure how long they spent with
any given segment of life that they intend to do --
how long they wrote their paper, how long they
watch a news story -- it's about ten seconds."

"What becomes important to us is the next new thing that comes
along in a matter of seconds; that's what grabs our attention. And
not only do we begin to ignore the need to think deeply and quietly
and contemplatively about things, but we begin to see that as a
waste of time, because it stops you from grabbing the next new bit  
of information.”
Nicholas
Carr
Author, Is google making us stoopid
The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains
The Glass Cage: How our computers are changing us

What Are
The Effects
of our
Social Media habits ?

“Right at the time when smart phones became popular (2012)…
that’s exactly when loneliness among teens started to spike;
symptoms of depression, suicide related outcomes, happiness
started to go down, life satisfaction started to go down, right at that
time when they were spending a lot more time on their phones and a
lot less time with one another in person.”
Jean
Twenge
Professor of Psychology
San Diego State University

"Anything that's done with a screen: texting, social media, TV, online,
computer games – all of those are correlated with lower happiness,"
Jean
Twenge

What is your role/job title in education?
What Challenges do you face
with Mobile Technology ?
At Home ?

What is your role/job title in education?
What Challenges do you face
with Mobile Technology ?
At school ?

“Parents are digital pioneers.”
Jean
Twenge

What types of behaviours
Do we model ?

Family Time Staring at Screens
Family Time
vs
Screen Time
* Daily statistic according to a 2017 survey of 2000 families in the U.K.
36
min.
115
min.

“Don’t touch  
the green screen!”

The glass ‘cockpit’ for airline pilots is a metaphor for how we are
living our lives. We look at screens instead of experiencing life ﬁrst
hand.
Nicholas
Carr
Author,

“We need to protect what gives us the deepest sense of satisfaction
and fulﬁllment in our lives, which is struggling with hard problems
and developing the rich talents to overcome those problems and
challenges.”
Nicholas
Carr
Author,

“We’ve oﬀ-loaded so much power to the technology that  
our own skills are diminishing.”
Nicholas
Carr
Author,

“We become what we behold.  
We shape our tools,  
and then our tools shape us.”
Marshall
mCluhan
Futurist from the past

“We become what we behold.  
We shape our tools,  
and then our tools shape us.”
Fr. John
Culkin
Professor of Communication
Fordham University

Do you
Share photos of  
your kids online ?

Do you
Share photos of  
your kids online ?
Should you?

Do you
Follow  
your kids online ?

Do you
Follow  
your kids online ?
Should you?

Where does your
phone sleep?
Bedroom Elsewhere

School Hack:
Set an  
Example

“Technology can be our best friend, and
technology can also be the biggest party
pooper of our lives. It interrupts our story,
interrupts our ability to have a thought or
a daydream, to imagine something
wonderful, because we're too busy
bridging the walk from the cafeteria back
to the ofﬁce on the cell phone”
(in Kennedy, 2002)
Steven
Spielberg
Film Producer
Director, Ready Player One

What’s your
FAVE OUTDOOR Activity?

Make  
eye  
contact
A skill to teach ?

“There are a lot of unanswered questions…  
What is the effect on ‘social skills’, ‘attention span’,  
‘cognitive development’…
“Students will not look me in the eye.”
“Students will not read long passages.”
Jean
Twenge

Fill in the Blank
people with close personal ties…
_______________________________

“Use as a tool… not a tool that uses you”
“Use it for what it’s good for, without getting to so
many hours of use that its crowding out time for other
good things in life or that its affecting mental health.”
Jean
Twenge

What was Your Class
most recent ‘non-gym’
Physical Activity ?

School Hack:
Teach WHAT  
MATTERS MOST

Teachresiliency.ca
School Hack:
Teach
Resiliency

Apps
Mindshift
SuperBetter
Pacifica
One Tomato
Oak
MindYourMind
Starry Night

LIFE HACK:
AVOID HAVING a
PHONE IN your BEDROOM

Turn off
Alerts
Life Hack:
Schedule
Check-ins

Be
with
People
who
are
with
you
Life Hack:

Life Hack:
Turn off  
the data

Life Hack:
Leave the Phone Behind

Life Hack:
Stretch (wrist, Neck…)

Life Hack:
Blink. Focus. Look.

Find quiet
… and relish it
LIFE Hack:

Life Hack:
Choose
Foods
Wisely

What’s The last book
You read cover to cover ?

When did you last
spend 10 minutes
in quiet ?

Un-Google
Join ‘OPT Out Village’
Un-

Life Hack:
Every once
in a while
Be A OK
with Being
unplugged

“The more time you spend thinking about yourself,
the more suﬀering you will experience.”
Dalai
Lama
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Co-Author, The Book of Joy

“In fact, taking care of others, helping others,
ultimately is the way to discover your own joy
and to have a happy life.
Dalai
Lama
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Co-Author, The Book of Joy

Learn More
Why People Check their Phones at the Wrong Times, and the Simple Trick to Stop It?
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/mar/08/children-mobile-phone-distraction-study-
school
Nicolas Carr: Our Automated Lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HkHrcksub0
Is Technology Saving Us, or Enslaving Us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBRLMoL_vTQ
Infomagical  
https://project.wnyc.org/infomagical/
Privacy Paradox
https://project.wnyc.org/privacy-paradox/
Your Brain on Digital Technology
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/your-brain-on-digital-technology-1.4562541
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29496453-the-book-of-joy
Teach Resiliency
teachresiliency.ca

Learn More
Parents should be aware of the consequences when posting photos of children online
https://www.independent.ie/life/family/mothers-babies/parents-should-be-aware-of-the-consequences-
when-posting-photos-of-children-online-say-irish-psychologists-35984637.html
The Invisible Made Visible
https://learningwithlupe.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/project-two-the-invisible-made-visible-ﬁrst-idea/
Flip phones and other “dumbphones” the new tech trend
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ﬂip-phones-and-other-dumbphones-new-tech-trend-1.4637126
The impact of smartphones and mobile devices on human health and life
https://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/waoe/miakotkol.pdf
The Science of Well Being (Yale’s free online happiness class)
www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
Strategies for Recess in Schools
https://www.shapeamerica.org/uploads/pdfs/recess/SchoolRecessStrategies.pdf
France is Banning Mobile Phones in Schools
https://qz.com/1153379/france-will-ban-mobile-phones-in-schools-and-parents-seem-annoyed/
Jim Carrey: I needed Colour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFy8GY_sGYM

Creative Commons
What every  
CREATOR  
needs to know.
Stuart Richards
Daniel Byers
Håkan Dahlström
Mark Williams
Steve Wolf
Colleen
Ahmet Kilci
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