August 17, 2012 Long time readers know I'm a huge fan of 'digital detox' to give writing a break, focus fully on family at the end of summer, and regroup for the back to school scene... I've written about the daunting demands of an 'always on' culture and the need for a screen free exodus multiple times in posts like "Media Unplugged: Clamping the IV Digital Drip"... And … [Read more...]
Unplug: On Summer Hiatus For Digital Detox (Again)
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Spring Break Sanctuary: Ideas To Celebrate Screen Free Week
May 6, 2015 This year, "Screen Free Week" has been hardest on me for work related immediacy, as Twitter and 'livestreaming' events have made me feel like Gumby with people pinging and pushing their content under my nose to 'Please help! Look! See! Write about this worthy cause!' Even though Screen Free Week is flexibly interpreted as a customizable mindfulness exercise, I … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Alone Together, Amy-Jussel, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, CCFC, Digital Detox, digital drama, digital-natives, Earth Hour, family time, Get 'Em Outside, Going dark, GreenHour, healthy media consumption, human connection, information overload, Kids health, life balance, Media management, Media Unplugged, media-literacy, Middle School unplugged, multitasking, National Day of Unplugging, Nature deficit disorcer, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, Nick News, No-Child-Left-Inside, nurture, reshaping habits, Richard-Louv, Screen free challenge, Screen Free Week, Sherry Turkle, Shutting Down, social-media, spring break sanctuary, Susan Linn, technology, texting, totally wired, TV Turnoff Week, Unplug Your Kids, unplugged, week without technology, wired worlds