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Dear Friends & Family: My Apologies on Being in the Technological Dark Ages, But…
Dear Loved Ones: As most of you know, I don’t carry a mobile device. The cell phone that my wife uses, and I periodically share, has no texting or internet. […]
Technology
High-Tech CEOs—Low-Tech Parents: Are We Getting the Message?
On September 11th, an article was published in the New York Times entitled, “Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent”. It was not the first one of its kind. The author, […]
Mental Health • Relationships • Technology
Addressing the Mental Health Crisis: What Really Matters
Watch Dr. Schroeder’s presentation of “Addressing the Mental Health Crisis” Evidence increasingly suggests that psychological difficulties are on the rise. The Global Disease Burden Study, published in August of 2013, declared […]
Technology
A New Vision of Technology and Our Youth
Over the past decade and a half, I have written a lot about the issues of media/technology and our youth of today. Most of it is available on my website […]
Technology
Why 1:1 Is Not the Answer: Taking a Closer Look at Technology in the Schools
In the educational climate of today, nothing is perceived as more progressive than finding ways to digitalize everything students are doing. What started out as Smart Boards and audio/video projectors […]
Technology
Do You Know What Is Coming into Your Youth’s Phone?
It is 11:30 P.M on a Thursday night. Your 13-year-old daughter is asleep. Suddenly she awakes to a ding from her phone. She quickly realizes that one of her best […]
Health • Technology
How The Almighty Norm Can Dilute Advice We Give and Receive
“Binge-Watching Television Spikes Blood Clot Risk.” This was the headline of a recent article that came out in MD Magazine. The researchers looked at over 86,000 participants in regards to […]
Exercise • Mental Health • Technology
How Following the Trail of “Cutting Edge” and “Convenient” Can Distort Reality
In the late 1990’s, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) set out to provide the most extensive review ever conducted of the effectiveness of ADHD medications in children. It […]
Technology
Left to Their Own Devices
Left to Their Own Devices – Updated It is midnight. Rachel fell asleep two hours ago, but the intermittent ding of her cell phone keeps waking her up. Suddenly, she […]
Technology
An App Full of Reasons Why the Mobile Device-Youth Experiment Is Failing
At the dawn of the most recent millennium, mobile technology was still in its infancy. Only about a 1/3 of people had a mobile device, most of which were adults. […]