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If you’re a parent, whether you use apps, timers or device settings to limit your child’s screen time, or you just squirrel phones in sock drawers (guilty), you are familiar with the fraught challenge. Particularly after pandemic lockdowns, families are dealing with tech in new ways.
Many generations have coped with technological change – my 84-year-old father recounts his father refusing to get a television because he believed the children would stop reading. But the all-pervasive nature of tech today, combined with popular advances in AI, certainly raises new questions and ethical concerns.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Natalie Coulter and Lindsay C. Sheppard of York University write about interviews they did with mothers of young children about managing children’s screen media during pandemic lockdowns. The research is part of a larger collaborative research study, with researchers in Australia, the United States, China, Colombia, South Korea and the United Kingdom.
They write: “Mothers’ decisions around children’s screen media use are wrapped in worries about being a ‘good parent,’ concerns around children’s childhood and futures and work-from-home realities.” And they call for a wider social dialogue on who is responsible for how children and moms are navigating these times.
Also today:
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Susannah Schmidt
Education + Arts Editor
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Interviews with mothers about children’s media use during pandemic lockdowns revealed struggles with practical and moral questions about short- and long-term effects of how children are using technology.
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Natalie Coulter, York University, Canada; Lindsay C. Sheppard, York University, Canada
Policymakers, tech companies and schools should all be part of conversations about how our society is responsible for the new realities of tech in the home after COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Levels of the stress hormone cortisol are reduced with as little as 20 minutes in a city park.
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Scott Lear, Simon Fraser University
Numerous studies indicate exercise as an effective treatment for people with existing depression and other mental illnesses, and exercising in nature can further improve mental well-being.
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On a road trip journey of self-discovery, three women friends of ‘Another Self’ visit ruins of the Temple of Athena in Assos, Turkey. (Herbert Weber/Wikipedia)
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Evren Altinkas, University of Guelph
As a displaced scholar, I never thought a show depicting events affecting modern Turkey would so strongly impact my interpretation of historical and political contexts intersecting with my family.
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Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) stand at a picket line outside Place du Portage in Gatineau, Que., on April 28, 2023.
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Eli Sopow, University Canada West
Will an increase in wages make federal government workers happier and more efficient while dealing with the public on taxation, public safety and a multitude of other daily and often frustrating issues?
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Certain factors can disrupt the gut microbiota. These include our diet, alcohol consumption, antibiotics and inflammatory bowel disease.
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Éloi Gagnon, Université Laval; Benoit Arsenault, Université Laval
A new study shows that the gut microbiota has little or no effect on our weight, metabolism and risk of developing chronic diseases.
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La Conversation Canada
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Le tutorat désigne l’accompagnement régulier, personnalisé, individualisé ou en petits groupes, d’apprenants rencontrant des difficultés scolaires.
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Cathia Papi, Université TÉLUQ
Alors que le tutorat visant le soutien scolaire est une mesure phare mise en œuvre dans le contexte de crise sanitaire, dans quelle mesure constitue-t-il une façon pertinente de soutenir les élèves ?
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Culture + Society
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Simon Esmonde Cleary, University of Birmingham
The gate has been built on the site of an actual Roman gateway, thought to date to the invasion of Britain in AD 43.
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Environment + Energy
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Robin Dodson, Boston University; Megan R. Schwarzman, University of California, Berkeley; Ruthann Rudel, Northeastern University
Manufacturers don’t usually have to disclose what’s in products like shampoo and household cleaners, but a new study finds that these products can contain hazardous ingredients.
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