1) The document discusses strategies and skills to cope with the negative effects of digitalization. 2) It outlines both the possibilities of digitalization, such as access to knowledge, and the negative effects, like lack of focus and internet addiction. 3) The foundational problem is that evolution has created our bodies as hunter-gatherers while culture and technology now develop much faster, so solutions aim to adjust lifestyles and habits to avoid negative impacts.

1. Strategies and skills to cope with
the negative effects of digitalization
Dan Frendin
Stagneliusskolan
Kalmarsunds gymnasieförbund
Sweden
Mobile Learning Week 2018
UNESCO
Paris
28-3-2018
Photo: Dan Frendin

2. What is the deadly dose of water?
Source:
Public Domain

3. 6 liter

4. Possibilities of digitalization
● Access to knowledge
● Share writings and
experiences
● Tools for creative work
● Fulfill societal needs
● Connections around the
world
Base for exponential
technical
development and the fourth
industrial revolution.
● AI
● VR
● Robots
● 3 D printers
etc

5. Negative effects of digitalization
● Lack of focus
● Disturbed circadian rhythm
● Internet addiction
● Inactive lifestyles
● Disorientation
This leads to low results, depression, sleeping problems,
fatigue and other health problems.
Photo: Dan Frendin

6. The foundational problem
Evolution has created our bodies as hunter/gatherer
10 000 years ago, a cultural
evolution started that
develops much faster than our
bodies evolve.
Na'na Kali'na: Une histoire des Kali'na en Guyane. 1743

7. Foundational solutions
1. Learn how our body systems works and are affected by
the digital culture.
2. Adjust our lifestyles with routines and habits to avoid
negative effects and create a life we truly love.
3. Use the possibilities in the new digital culture.
4. Learn to be mindful and have deep communication.

8. Circadian rythm
12
24
6 18
21:00 Melatonin-
secretion
starts
7:30 Melatonin
secretion
stops
2:00 Deepest
sleep
Red light in the evening
stimulates melatonin
production.
Blue light stops the
creation of melatonin

9. Circadian rythm
Affect:
● Energy and metabolism
● Stress and appetite
● Sleep
● Health and longevity

10. Solution - Circadian rhythm
Avoid blue light in the evening
● Use f.lux or nightshift on
technical devices
● Use “blublockers”
Use blue light in the morning
● Light therapy lamp
Photo: Dan Frendin

11. Brain reward system
Dopamin from pop-up notes,
email and social media “hijack”
the brain and weakens the
natural dopamin kicks for
survival.
Create “internet addiction”
By Oscar Arias-Carrión1, Maria Stamelou, Eric Murillo-
Rodríguez, Manuel Menéndez-González and Ernst
Pöppel. CC BY 3.0

12. Solutions - Brain reward system
● Close all pop-up windows.
● Have boundaries and a plan around ICT device use.
● ICT free hours and days.
● Teach and create awareness around ICT health
● ICT not the only solution

13. Solution - A lifeplan
Define the important lifecategories
For every categorie look at:
a. basic facts, beliefs, values or “state of now”
b. why the category is important
c. vision and “good enough”
d. goals and plans
Source:
Jon and Missy Butcher - Lifebook
Hyatt and Harkevy - Living Forward
Susan Pierce Thompson - Bright Line Mind
Vishen Lakhiani - Code of the extraordinary mind

14. Lifecategories - examples
● Health and fitness
● Intellectual life
● Emotional life
● Character
● Social life
● Spiritual life
● Love relationship
● Parenting
● Financial life
● Job and career
● “Life dream”
● Ecological lifeSource:
Jon and Missy Butcher - Lifebook
Hyatt and Harkevy - Living Forward
Susan Pierce Thompson - Bright Line Mind
Vishen Lakhiani - Code of the extraordinary mind

15. Solution - Be in nature
Photo: Dan Frendin

16. Solution - Develop deep real communication
Fourfold communication
● Deep-listen to others
● Deep-questioning
● Deep-listening to oneself
● Deep-talking
Photo: Dan Frendin

17. Cultivate mindfulness
Peripatetic talks Photo: Dan Frendin

18. Dan Frendin
email: dan.frendin@telia.com
blogg: dfrendin.com
Twitter: @DanFrendin