RESOURCES
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Parent handout: https://www.camh.ca/-/media/files/youthfamilyinteractive-onlinebrochure-pdf.pdf
Report https://kmb.camh.ca/ggtu/knowledge-translation/youth-smartphones-and-social-media-use
Media Smarts
from Canada’s Centre for Digital Media Literacy
Parent handout: https://mediasmarts.ca/parents
Canadian Pediatrics Society
Caring for Kids handout: https://caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/behavior-and-development/screen-time-and-digital-media
Report: https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/screen-time-and-preschool-children
Posters: https://cps.ca/uploads/tools/CPS_DigitalMediaPoster-EN.pdf
Books, Videos & Articles
Parent Resources
🔗 Clipping/Link 📚 Book 🔊 Audio 🤝 Organizations 📺 Video
Addiction
Vaping
🔗 How Juul Hooked a Generation on Nicotine - The New York Times
🔗 Teen vaping rates double in Ontario in just two years - The Toronto Star- Robert Cribb
🔊 The Inquiry - BBC World Service
🤝 Truth Initiative - Nonprofit public health organization dedicated to making tobacco use a thing of the past.
Pornography
📚 Man Interrupted - by Philip Zimbardo & Nikita Coloumbe
Social Media
🔗 The machine always wins. what drives our addiction to social media? - The Guardian
🔗 What it Takes to Put Your Phone Away - The New Yorker
🔗 Can we ever kick our smartphone addiction? - The Globe and Mail (Jim Balsillie and Norman Doidge)
🔗 Escaping the tech obsession - Axios
🔗 Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs With Smartphones? - The New York Times
🔊 You can’t stop checking your phone because Silicon Valley designed it that way - CBC Radio
🔊 Why technology is addictive and what to do about it - CBC Radio
📺 Dr. K on A&E and Glow Kids Documentary Short Video - Dr. Nicholas Kardaras
📚 Boys Adrift - by Dr. Leonard Sax
📚 Girls on the Edge - by Dr. Leonard Sax
📚 Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - by Adam Alter
🤝 Legal Advocacy: socialmediavictims.org
Education
Personal Tech in Educational Settings
📚 Screen Schooled - by Joe Clement and Matt Miles
Educating with Technology
🔗 The Schools That Ban Smartphones - The Atlantic
🔗 How Google took over U.S. classrooms - The Toronto Star
🔗 The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools - WIRED
🔗 Why ‘low-tech’ schools are trending - The Irish Times
🔗 Students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens - Business Insider
📚 Screen Schooled - by Joe Clement and Matt Miles
📺 Glow Kids Documentary Short Video - Dr. Nicholas Kardaras
Privacy & Surveillance
🔊 Sharing of school pupils' data put on hold - BBC News
🔊 As Google for Education tools enter classrooms, some parents are asking to opt-out - CBC Spark
Education Inequality
🔗 The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected - The New York Times
Alternative Approaches
🔗 A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute - The New York Times
General Interest
📚 The Smartest Kids in the World - by Amanda Ripley
📚 Finnish Lessons - by Pasi Sahlberg
Gaming
Addiction
📚 Glow Kids - by Dr. Nicholas Kardaras
📚 Man Interrupted - by Philip Zimbardo & Nikita Coloumbe
📚 Boys Adrift - by Dr. Leonard Sax
📚 Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - by Adam Alter
🤝 Game Quitters - the largest support community for video game addiction.
Loot Boxes
🔗 'Ban kids from loot box gambling in games' - BBC News
🔊 MBL: In-game purchases - BBC Money Box
🔊 Are loot boxes part of the video game or illegal gambling? - CBC Radio Spark
Business Model and Money
🔗 ‘But Mom, Video Games Are My Job’ - The New York Times
🔗 Who is getting rich off of Fortnite - CNN Business
Identity Distortion & Behaviour
📺 Being Thirteen - Video Documentary by CNN Anderson Cooper
🔗 Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? by Jean Twenge - The Atlantic
🔊 Disposable Youth by Henry Giroux
🔗 Possible tech- induced cognitive behaviour disorders - Information Is Beautiful
Fame Seeking and Validation
🔊 Online Behaviour, Real Life Consequences: The Unfolding of a Social Media Scandal - NPR Podcast
Sexting & Pornography
🔗 Girlsdoporn offline after losing legal battle - BBC News
🔗 The next battleground for sex education: safe sexting - The Globe and Mail
🔗 Girls Sharing Sexy Selfies - Psychology Today, Leonard Sax
Medical and Human Development
🔗 Time for a view on screen time - Dr. Aric Sigman
Brain Development
🔗 What Exactly Is Your Tablet Doing to Your Kid’s Brain? - The Observer
🔗 Screen-based media associated with structural differences in brains of young children - Science Daily
📺 Being Thirteen - Video Documentary by CNN Anderson Cooper
🔊 MRIs show screen time linked to lower brain development in preschoolers - CNN Health
🔊 Your brain on digital technology - CBC Radio Ideas
📚 The Teenage Brain - by Dr. Frances E. Jensen
📚 The Shallows - by Nicholas Carr
📚 Proust and the Squid - by Maryanne Wolf
📚 Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in the Digital World - by Maryanne Wolf
Myopia
🔗 Why half the world may need glasses by 2050 - BBC World Service
Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and 5G
🔗 Cellphone in your pocket? CBC's Marketplace investigates why you might reconsider - CBC The Current
🤝 World Health Organisation (WHO)
🤝 Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST)
🤝 WEEP Initiative
🤝 Dr. Magda Havas
Mental Health
📺 Being Thirteen - Video Documentary by CNN Anderson Cooper
🤝 Child Mind
🤝 Screenagers (Dr. Delaney)
🔗 OECD Children and Young People’s Health Mental Health in the Digital Age - OECD
🔗 Smartphones, tablets causing mental health issues in kids as young as two - New Zealand Herald
🔊 Depression, anxiety and social media - Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Loneliness
📚 Alone Together - by Sherry Turkle
📺 Alone Together - Ted Talk w/ Sherry Turkle
🔊 Alone Together - NPR w/ Sherry Turkle
Peer Pressure
📚 Hold On To Your Kids by Dr. Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Matte
Suicide
🔗 The Crisis in Youth Suicide - The New York Times
Predators
Pedophilia
🔗 Video Games and Online Chats Are ‘Hunting Grounds’ for Sexual Predators - The New York Times
Privacy & Surveillance
🔊 Sharing of school pupils' data put on hold - BBC News
🤝 I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes - The New York Times
🔊 As Google for Education tools enter classrooms, some parents are asking to opt-out - CBC Spark
🤝 Privacy by Design - Ann Couvkian
🤝 The Privacy Project - The New York Times
Social Skills and Family Life
📺 Being Thirteen - Video Documentary by CNN Anderson Cooper
Attachment Disorder and Peer Pressure
📚 Hold on to Your Kids by Dr. Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Matte
Lack of Communication Skills
📺 Reclaiming Conversation - TVO Sherry Turkle
PARENTING CORNER
🔗 Smartphones and the abdication of parental responsibility - The Globe and Mail Opinion, Ira Wells
🔗 Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? by Jean Twenge - The Atlantic
📚 The Collapse of Parenting by Dr. Leonard Sax
📚 Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne
📚 Hold On To Your Kids by Dr. Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Matte
📚 The Teenage Brain by Dr. Frances E. Jensen
🤝 Parachute - Brain Waves
🤝 Canadian Centre for Child Protection
🤝 Vanier institute for the Family
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Organizations & Support
RADIO PROGRAMS
Profiling technology issues on a regular basis
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BBC: The Digital Human
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BBC: Tech Tent
EXPERTS
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Dr. Marion Underwood Clinical Psychologist
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Dr. Eric Sigman aricsigman.com
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Dr. Leonard Sax leonardsax.com
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Dr. Gordon Neufeld neufeldinstitute.org
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Dr. Maryanne Wolf maryannewolf.com
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Dr. Nicholas Kardaras drkardaras.com
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Dr. Gabor Mate drgabormate.com
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Dr. Jean Twenge jeantwenge.com
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Sherry Turkle sherryturkle.com
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Dr. Mari Swingle drmariswingle.com
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Joe Clement & Matt Miles screenschooled.com/aboutauthors
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
Government Reports - Cross-Subject
Reports
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Education for a Connected World - UK Council for Children Internet Safety
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Democracy Under Threat: Risks and Solutions in the Era of Disinformation and Data Monopoly - House of Commons / Chambre Des Communes Canada