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If you are participating in the Glow Kids Collegial Circle PD, please respond to the following questions by entering and publishing a comment on the blog.  You may also keep the conversation going by replying to other participants' comments! A copy of the blog posts will be supportive documentation for the Collegial Circle. After reading Glow Kids, please respond to the following questions: 1. What is the central idea discussed in the book? What issues or ideas does the author explore? Are they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual, medical, or scientific 2. Do the issues affect your life? How so—directly, on a daily basis, or more generally? Now or sometime in the future? 3. What are the implications for the future? Are there long- or short-term consequences to the issues raised in the book? Are they positive or negative...affirming or frightening? 4. What solutions does the author propose? Are the author's recommendations concrete, se

From addiction expert Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a startling argument that technology has profoundly affected the brains of children―and not for the better. We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses―and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces―the Glow Kids―are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or fad like some sort of digital hula-hoop? Some say that glowing screens might even be good for kids―a form of interactive educational tool. Don’t believe it. In  Glow Kids , Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology―more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity―has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain’s pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of cl