Showing posts with label impacts of amount of time kids spend on digital devices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label impacts of amount of time kids spend on digital devices. Show all posts

Thursday, February 15, 2018

America’s Real Digital Divide; New York Times, February 11, 2018

Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Times; America’s Real Digital Divide

"A group of former Facebook and Google employees last week began a campaign to change the tech companies they had a hand in creating. The initiative, called Truth About Tech, aims to push these companies to make their products less addictive for children — and it’s a good start.

But there’s more to the problem. If you think middle-class children are being harmed by too much screen time, just consider how much greater the damage is to minority and disadvantaged kids, who spend much more time in front of screens."