Conference presentation
Everything May NOT Be Awesome…Are Smartphones Hurting Our Children?
Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People, 2018 (Sydney, Australia, 03-Aug-2018)
Generation Next
2018
Abstract
While technology has been with us for some time, smartphones are a relatively new phenomenon. These devices have also been central to the lives of a generation of children now being intuitively labelled as 'iGen'. This generation is distinct from every previous generation in how they have been raised, how they spend their time, how they behave and their attitudes to society and culture. Importantly, there is growing evidence that smartphones and smartdevices such as iPads are placing the members of iGen at the forefront of a range of developmental problems and mental health issues. Worryingly, this is all happening at a time when schools are actively promoting smartphones as necessary educational tools and mandating their use in classrooms without taking into account the evidence suggesting that doing so may be negatively impacting on all aspects of development including cognition, executive functioning and socio-emotional processing. This presentation looks at this evidence and provides a platform for engaging in important conversations about what constitutes smart usage of smartphones.
Details
- Title
- Everything May NOT Be Awesome…Are Smartphones Hurting Our Children?
- Authors
- Michael Nagel (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Conference details
- Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People, 2018 (Sydney, Australia, 03-Aug-2018)
- Publisher
- Generation Next
- Date published
- 2018
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Engage Research Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451484402621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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