Screens, Technology, and Education -- What's the Right Balance?

The Well-Trained Mind podcast

Technology Reading List:

• Marshall McLuhan
  • The Medium is the Message
  • The Global Village
  • The Gutenberg Galaxy
  • Understanding Media
• Neil Postman
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death
  • Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
• Ray Kurzwell
  • The Age of Spirtual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
• Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age Paperback

Articles Mentioned in the Episode:

• Mayo Clinic Article on Screen Time
• Digital Literacy:
  • Stanford Research: High School Students’ Digital Skills Paints Worrying Portrait
  • Stanford Research: It Doesn’t Take Long to Learn to Spot Misinformation Online
  • Civic Online Reasoning Lessons

Just for fun:

• Medieval Help Desk Sketch
• Susan’s Movie Recommendation: The Village, directed by M. Night Shyamalan

• (00:00) - Kids, Screentime, and Technology
• (00:42) - The benefits of remote meetings
• (03:46) - The Luddites
• (07:30) - Technology in preschool
• (09:46) - Tech in the grammar stage
• (19:17) - Break
• (20:22) - Tech in the logic stage
• (36:54) - Tech in the rhetoric stage
• (42:03) - Screen things we like!
• (46:22) - Outro