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 <br /> ''Mental Health, Social Well-Being and Anxiety''<br />
-*[https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/the-sad-state-of-happiness-in-the-united-states-and-the-role-of-digital-media/ The Sad State of Happiness in the United States and the Role of Digital Media] ''World Happiness Report 2019, Jean M. Twenge
+*[https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/the-sad-state-of-happiness-in-the-united-states-and-the-role-of-digital-media/ The Sad State of Happiness in the United States and the Role of Digital Media] ''World Happiness Report 2019,'' Jean M. Twenge
 *[https://theconversation.com/is-social-media-to-blame-for-the-worsening-mental-health-of-teenage-girls-64333 Is social media to blame for the worsening mental health of teenage girls?] ''The Conversation'' August 2016
 *[https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/mental-health/managing-stress-and-anxiety-the-digital-age-the-dark-side-technology Stress and anxiety in the digital age: The dark side of technology]

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 <br /> ''Mental Health, Social Well-Being and Anxiety''<br />
 *[https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/mental-health/managing-stress-and-anxiety-the-digital-age-the-dark-side-technology Stress and anxiety in the digital age: The dark side of technology]
 *[https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/my-students-dont-know-how-to-have-a-conversation/360993/ My Students Don't Know How to Have a Conversation] - The Atlantic

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 <br /> '''Learning, Memory, and Productivity'''<br />
 *[https://www.consciously-digital.com/ Consciously Digital]-- This website is a resource built by Anastasia Dedyukhina, author of the book ''Homo Distractus: Fight for your choices and identity in the digital age''.
 **[https://youtu.be/uNQujCwCu88 -''Could you live without a smartphone?''] (18 Min. TED Talk)
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 * ''[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600671/how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell/ How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy''] By Jenny Odell, 2019, Penguin Random House.
 **''"Given that all of the issues that face us demand an understanding of complexity, interrelationship, and nuance, the ability to seek and understand context is nothing less than a collective survival skill."'' (p. 166)
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 *[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/how-facebook-robbed-us-of-our-sense-of-self  Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition] ''The Guardian'' January 31, 2019. ''"Facebook age marks a break from traditional human behaviour in key aspect. In the past, we could regularly take a break from acting, and revert to some sense of our private, authentic selves. Now, as we constantly prod at our smartphones and feel the pull of their addictive apps, when does the performing ever stop?"''
 *''The Coddling of the American Mind'', by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, addresses the intersecting dynamics that have created a more polarized society, focusing on how changing parenting styles, university practices that reinforce "overparenting" tendencies, and changes in the larger technological and physical environments affect young people's well-being and their ability to confront the critical challenges of our day. [[https://www.thecoddling.com/ More resources at authors' website thecoddling.com].
-*[https://dcs.megaphone.fm/BUR9580458773.mp3?key=a35557f2fc90ec807b4b6443ee50c1bb Podcast: “A Threat to Democracy? What Social Media has Done to us” NPR On Point November 27, 2019.]  Are social networks driving us into partisan factions at the expense of the common good? We look at social media and democracy. Jonathan Haidt, Social Psychologist and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and Sherry Turkle, Social Psychologist at MIT, author of Reclaiming Conversation.
+*[https://dcs.megaphone.fm/BUR9580458773.mp3?key=a35557f2fc90ec807b4b6443ee50c1bb Podcast: “A Threat to Democracy? What Social Media has Done to us” NPR On Point November 27, 2019.]  ''Are social networks driving us into partisan factions at the expense of the common good? We look at social media and democracy. Jonathan Haidt, Social Psychologist and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and Sherry Turkle, Social Psychologist at MIT, author of Reclaiming Conversation.''
 **“If you don’t teach your children how to be alone, you are only teaching them to be lonely.” That is, by failing to restrict children’s use of digital technology, parents are not enabling them to develop important lessons about themselves and skills at building rewarding friendships. (Dr. Sherry Turkle)
 *[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html "Snowplow Parents: How Parents are Robbing their Children of Adulthood."] The 2019 scandal surrounding campus admissions reveals the implications of the broader problem of growing and related competition in our educational and labor markets. Young people have increasingly been socialized into constant high-stakes testing and competition to get into the best schools, in preparation for an increasingly competitive work environment. But are they better prepared for life as adults in a world that faces critically urgent challenges?

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 *[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/how-facebook-robbed-us-of-our-sense-of-self  Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition] ''The Guardian'' January 31, 2019. ''"Facebook age marks a break from traditional human behaviour in key aspect. In the past, we could regularly take a break from acting, and revert to some sense of our private, authentic selves. Now, as we constantly prod at our smartphones and feel the pull of their addictive apps, when does the performing ever stop?"''
 *''The Coddling of the American Mind'', by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, addresses the intersecting dynamics that have created a more polarized society, focusing on how changing parenting styles, university practices that reinforce "overparenting" tendencies, and changes in the larger technological and physical environments affect young people's well-being and their ability to confront the critical challenges of our day. [[https://www.thecoddling.com/ More resources at authors' website thecoddling.com].
 *[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html "Snowplow Parents: How Parents are Robbing their Children of Adulthood."] The 2019 scandal surrounding campus admissions reveals the implications of the broader problem of growing and related competition in our educational and labor markets. Young people have increasingly been socialized into constant high-stakes testing and competition to get into the best schools, in preparation for an increasingly competitive work environment. But are they better prepared for life as adults in a world that faces critically urgent challenges?
 •	[https://student.unsw.edu.au/perfectionism Resources for Addressing Perfectionism] (UNSW Sydney) <br/>

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[http://fortune.com/2016/02/03/nicholas-carr-internet/ "The Internet Makes Us Stupid, and Here's Why"] Kabir Sehgal Fortune Feb. 3, 2016 </span>
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[http://www.chronicle.com/article/Teach-Naked-Effort-Strips/47398/ When Computers Leave Classrooms, So Does Boredom], Chronical of Higher Education, July 20, 2009</span>
-* Sherry Terkel (2012) ''[http://geni.us/AloneTogether Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other]''
+* Sherry Turkle (2012) ''[http://geni.us/AloneTogether Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other]''
-* Sherry Terkel (2015) ''[http://geni.us/ReclaimingConvo Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age]''
+* Sherry Turkle (2015) ''[http://geni.us/ReclaimingConvo Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age]''
 * ''[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600671/how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell/ How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy''] By Jenny Odell, 2019, Penguin Random House.
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 The term [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technostress '''"Technostress"'''] refers to an increasingly common experience with negative health implications. People "feel compulsive about being connected and sharing constant updates, feel forced to respond to work-related information in real-time, and engage in almost habitual multi-tasking. ''They feel compelled to work faster because information flows faster, and have little time to spend on sustained thinking and creative analysis."''
-*See more at:[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/prefrontal-nudity/201708/dealing-technostress Dealing With Technostress: Beware of letting the machines take over] ''Psychology Today'' Alex Korb, PhD, August 22, 2017.
+*See more at: [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/prefrontal-nudity/201708/dealing-technostress Dealing With Technostress: Beware of letting the machines take over] ''Psychology Today'' Alex Korb, PhD, August 22, 2017.
 More and more people are ''[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/better/technology/9-ways-to-start-and-stick-to-a-digital-detox/ taking occasional "digital detox" breaks ]'' to improve their concentration, performance, relationships, and overall health.<br /><br />  The following links provide resources for critical reflection on the uses of technology and its effects on learning, attention, productivity, and mental health.<br />

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 <div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block">'''Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age'''<br />  A growing body of research is emerging to show the detrimental impacts of the saturation of cell phones, text messaging, and laptops on people's attention spans, learning abilities, social and communications skills, and overall mental health. These findings also have relevance for our thinking about broader social issues such as social cohesion, class and racial polarization, and social movements. <br/>
-The term [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technostress "Technostress"] refers to an increasingly common experience with negative health implications. People "feel compulsive about being connected and sharing constant updates, feel forced to respond to work-related information in real-time, and engage in almost habitual multi-tasking. They feel compelled to work faster because information flows faster, and have little time to spend on sustained thinking and creative analysis."
+The term [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technostress '''"Technostress"'''] refers to an increasingly common experience with negative health implications. People "feel compulsive about being connected and sharing constant updates, feel forced to respond to work-related information in real-time, and engage in almost habitual multi-tasking. ''They feel compelled to work faster because information flows faster, and have little time to spend on sustained thinking and creative analysis."''
 *See more at:[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/prefrontal-nudity/201708/dealing-technostress Dealing With Technostress: Beware of letting the machines take over] ''Psychology Today'' Alex Korb, PhD, August 22, 2017.
-<span style="display: block; text-align: center"> '''''"Technology often causes us to lose our senses when it comes to norms of polite behavior and, as a result,'''''</span><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''''perfectly nice people become unbelievably rude and insulting."''''' --[http://learnercentered.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/dont-text-in-class-and-heres-why/ Dr. Cara Finnegan ]<br /> </span><br />
+<span style="display: block; text-align: center"> ''"Technology often causes us to lose our senses when it comes to norms of polite behavior and, as a result,'''''</span><span style="display: block; text-align: center">''perfectly nice people become unbelievably rude and insulting."''''' --[http://learnercentered.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/dont-text-in-class-and-heres-why/ Dr. Cara Finnegan ]<br /> </span><br />
 More and more people are ''[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/better/technology/9-ways-to-start-and-stick-to-a-digital-detox/ taking occasional "digital detox" breaks ]'' to improve their concentration, performance, relationships, and overall health.<br /><br />  The following links provide resources for critical reflection on the uses of technology and its effects on learning, attention, productivity, and mental health.<br />

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 ==International==
 *[https://www.screenfree.org/ Global Campaign: Screen-Free Week]: '''Screen Free Week 2020 is May 4-10'''
-*WHO Guidelines on screen time: [https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/24-04-2019-to-grow-up-healthy-children-need-to-sit-less-and-play-more To grow up healthy, children need to sit less and play more]
+*'''WHO Guidelines on screen time:''' [https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/24-04-2019-to-grow-up-healthy-children-need-to-sit-less-and-play-more ''To grow up healthy, children need to sit less and play more'']