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Finding Balance
The document discusses the implications of mobile technology on education and social habits, particularly focusing on attention, mental health, and interpersonal relationships. It includes insights from various experts who highlight the addictive nature of technology and its effects on students, emphasizing the importance of finding balance and teaching mindfulness in our digital lives. Suggestions for reducing screen time and fostering real-life connections are also provided.
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- 4. The Quest for Attention Part1 April 9, 2018
- 5. Tech Companies Users customers Eyeballs Shareholders Device makers App Developers Engagement The Tools are Free!! If you Pay attention
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- 7. “If you wantto 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
- 8. Tristan Harris on Snapstreaksand Habits
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- 10. “ WHAT DOES ITLOOK LIKE ? “Did I just get an alert!” “What’s under the red notifications?” “Let me refresh…” “Do people approve/agree?” “Who liked my stuff?”
- 11. “Fake brittle popularityleaves you more vacant and empty.” Chamath PaliHapitiya Venture Capitalist Formerly Facebook Coder
- 12. Allia Griffin Lecturer, Ethnic Studies SantaClara 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.”
- 14. “You’re part ofa 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
- 15. Connected but ALONE Part 2 April30, 2018
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- 19. Byron Reeves Media Psychologist Stanford University "Toview 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."
- 20. "What becomes importantto 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
- 21. What Are The Effects ofour Social Media habits ?
- 22. “Right at thetime 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
- 23. "Anything that's donewith a screen: texting, social media, TV, online, computer games – all of those are correlated with lower happiness," Jean Twenge Professor of Psychology San Diego State University
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- 25. What is yourrole/job title in education? What Challenges do you face with Mobile Technology ? At Home ?
- 26. What is yourrole/job title in education? What Challenges do you face with Mobile Technology ? At school ?
- 27. “Parents are digitalpioneers.” Jean Twenge Professor of Psychology San Diego State University
- 28. What types ofbehaviours Do we model ?
- 30. Family Time Staringat Screens Family Time vs Screen Time * Daily statistic according to a 2017 survey of 2000 families in the U.K. 36 min. 115 min.
- 32. “Don’t touch thegreen screen!”
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- 34. 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, The Glass Cage: How our computers are changing us
- 35. “We need toprotect 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, The Glass Cage: How our computers are changing us
- 36. “We’ve off-loaded somuch power to the technology that our own skills are diminishing.” Nicholas Carr Author, The Glass Cage: How our computers are changing us
- 37. “We become whatwe behold. We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us.” Marshall mCluhan Futurist from the past
- 38. “We become whatwe behold. We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us.” Fr. John Culkin Professor of Communication Fordham University
- 41. Do you Share photosof your kids online ?
- 42. Do you Share photosof your kids online ? Should you?
- 43. Do you Follow yourkids online ?
- 44. Do you Follow yourkids online ? Should you?
- 46. Where does your phonesleep? Bedroom Elsewhere
- 47. School Hack: Set an Example
- 48. “Technology can beour 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
- 49. Go for aWalk School Hack:
- 50. What’s your FAVE OUTDOORActivity?
- 51. Make eye contact Askill to teach ?
- 52. “There are alot 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 Professor of Psychology San Diego State University
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- 55. Fill in theBlank people with close personal ties… _______________________________
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- 57. Turn off theWIFI School Hack
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- 59. “Use as atool… 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 Professor of Psychology San Diego State University
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- 61. What was YourClass most recent ‘non-gym’ Physical Activity ?
- 62. School Hack: Teach WHAT MATTERS MOST
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- 77. LIFE HACK: AVOID HAVINGa PHONE IN your BEDROOM
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- 81. Life Hack: Turn offthe WIFI
- 82. Life Hack: Turn off the data
- 83. LIFE Hack: DUMB DOWNDEVICES
- 84. Life Hack: Leave thePhone Behind
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- 88. Find quiet … andrelish it LIFE Hack:
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- 90. Read a book LifeHack:
- 91. What’s The lastbook You read cover to cover ?
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- 95. When did youlast spend 10 minutes in quiet ?
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- 98. Un-Google Join ‘OPT OutVillage’ Un-
- 99. Life Hack: Every once ina while Be A OK with Being unplugged
- 100. “The more timeyou 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
- 101. “In fact, takingcare 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
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- 103. Learn More Why PeopleCheck 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
- 104. Learn More Parents shouldbe 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
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