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Technology – Blessing or Curse?
There is no question that over the last 20 years, the internet has become integral to our daily lives. We depend on it. We use it to follow the news, to keep an eye on the weather, to find and order everything from guns to gum, to discover the best route for our travels, to come up with the best recipe for dinner, to show us how to replace brake pads.
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Facing the Screen Time Dilemma
We are living in the iPad kid generation. Generation Alpha (known “affectionately” as iPad kids) comprises kids born between 2010 and 2024. They have received the label “iPad kids” for that exact reason – screen time overload.
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Tech, Faith, & Family Seminar
Your student lives in a world surrounded and infused by technology. Communication is instant. Friendships take place “online” sometimes even more than in “real life.”
This “connected” world brings new opportunities and new dangers. How do we navigate these together as a family?
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The Smartphone Generation
Jean Twenge is a researcher who has looked at data on over 11 million youth as part of a new generational study. The millennial generation is timing out as a new, unnamed generation appears. These young people could be called the smartphone generation born around 2000. Today’s 18 year olds are the first to grow up spending time much differently than generations before them, due in large part, to the rise of the iPhone.
Twenge has called them iGen. In fact, she has written a book based upon her study of today’s youth titled: “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids …
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