Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2024
- NYU professor Jonathan Haidt argued that technology is harming the social development and mental health of children. He was interviewed by Harvard University Center for Digital Thriving co-director and author Emily Weinstein.
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The problem may be that it's too late, probably. It would take a serious shift in cultural conditions to eliminate smartphone use and social media from children's lives. There's a mindfulness workbook called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels that might be a good start.
All it will take is for one upcoming generation to see it as their parents' thing....old school...lame...which it is.
Social media is so deeply infused in our lives and educational system. It will take a shift of high magnitude to eliminate phones in schools. In my opinion, our congressional leaders should’ve stepped in long ago. Unfortunately, the train has left the station and is running a million miles per hour down the track.
For example, as a college professors, we are being primed and encouraged by administration to integrate students’ iPhones in class as a learning tool. However, it is impossible, as students’ attention is easily and quickly hijacked by their social media and incoming texts. Faculty are raging about this issue, which has been compounded by the use of artificial intelligence to cheat. Many of us have given up in utter frustration as our concerns fall on administrations deaf ears …..
@@Rollins-ek3li Social media is not infused at all with our lives..zero. Its only addicts who say that "Alcohol is so infused with our lives I don't know how we'd gety along with it" . Same thing. Many people have no phones, no accounts, they are doing jut fine.
@@stoneneils If social media is not so tightly woven into our culture, then why are we having this exchange, on UA-cam, a social media site. Why don’t we just write letters and be happy with getting a PenPal ? Why don’t we tell our employers we will not work from a computer or use a cell phone ? Why don’t we launch a campaign to have college students banned from using a computer and force them to go to the library to read books ? Why ? Because technology has been injected into everything ….
I saw Margaret Hoover interview this gentleman a few hours ago and couldn't agree with his observations and conclusions more.
Millenials didn't have smart phones before age 16 and no social media before age 16 years. Aren't they mentally distressed with anxiety, depression, identity crisis etc?Whilst limiting access to the technology would have many benefits, it looks like the author of this book is just riding a popular wave.
The interviewer is correct, encouraging millenials, young adults and kids to build good strong, trusting, relationships with their parents, grand-parents, relatives and other older adult role models is the way to go. Put an end to the negativity about these important, loving, caring people in their lives.
WRONG
I don’t think it’s about building trusting relationships with our families. Millennials still grew up outside, without smart phones, around family etc. I believe it has a lot to do with millennials don’t get breaks. We were raised when mental health was still a very touchy subject. But the older generation checked out. Grandparents aren’t there anymore. They don’t take kids for date nights, weekends away etc. they have this “I raised my kids already” mentality. But if their parents (millennials grandparents) did that while our parents were raising us… they would be just as anxious. There’s no village anymore. Mental health is such a huge deal. And our parents had that mental health and physical break without even realizing it. As millennials most of us have to beg for our parents to be present in our and our children’s lives.