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...
I found this book very alarming. I believe every word. I have actually spoken to my daughter about this issue as she now has an 11 month old baby. Clearly, some of the examples offered in the book are the extreme and the behaviors likely fueled by a propensity to addiction in the first place. However, my own observations regarding students and adults confirm that screen addiction can be detrimental to one's physical and mental well-being as well as any kind of socialization between individuals.
ReplyDeleteI have observed babies playing with cell phones. They are emulating their parents, the parents hand it to them to keep them busy. It frightens me to see a generation of people who must constantly be entertained.
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