Are we expecting more from our computers, smart phones and other technologies and less from ourselves?
This is the very question being asked in Sherry Turkle's new book Alone Together Why We are Expecting More From Technology and Less From Each Other.
One year I took a poll using a classroom of 30 students. All of my students, expect for two were on some kind of Attention Deficit/Anxiety/Depression/ et al medication. Why?
These same students had been placed in my Study Hall class due to failing or poor performance in their course work. All of them struggled with completing homework at home. I wondered why?
My question I asked my students was; " How much screen time do you use?" The average was about 8 hours a day! The two who were not on some kind of medication had less screen time and were very active outdoors.
I will be sharing summaries and thoughts from her chapters.
Points to Ponder.
Bless Bless
It does not escape me the irony of me using a hand held smart phone to post a comment for this topic.
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