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Learn more- Parents and teachers around the world struggle with their kids' dependence on devices today. As Covid has forced our kids to rely on technology more than ever, "#KidsOnTech" looks at the impact on children's developing bodies and brains, and asks: "How might we better prepare our kids for this digital world?" Voices from India to the U.S., France to China, Mexico to Japan explore what children need to truly excel in a future dominated by tech, including a Google designer, a German brain scientist, and New York Times journalist, Matt Richtel, whose story on a Silicon Valley school created an international media frenzy. Is tech somehow inherently evil? Should we shield our children from tech at all costs? Certainly not, nor could we if we tried. #KidsOnTech's approach is one of empathic concern for all who are caught up in tech's blinding advance and offers parents a reminder of basic child development and how we can better foster our children's growth and maturity so that they might thrive, not only in tech environments, but in the world itself. Most of us were relieved to have zoom classrooms, but children around the world are now emerging even more obsessed than before with tech devices. The growing consensus in scientific circles confers that heavy use of tech can profoundly compromise healthy "brain development" in young children. And yet, in the world today, it is nearly impossible for parents and children not to depend on these devices in multiple ways. What to do? During the editing of the film, everyone wanted us to offer a simple answer; but there were none. Nonetheless, parents and teachers are desperate for answers. Our mission in this film is to step beyond the hyperbolic media coverage spelling doom and gloom for kids and ask: What are we missing in this polarized debate? Our process was to seek out intimate conversations with parents, teachers, neuroscientists, tech executives, child psychologists, and kids of every age from around the world hoping to better understand what's become humankind's greatest social experiment. This film's objective is to help start these important conversations with parents and teachers - conversations that are as important and alive today as climate change. The film tries to remind parents of what they already know - instinctively, as parents - children need to experience outdoor play, work with their hands, engage with their friends, and figure out what to do when they become insufferably bored. The film explores how we might both protect and prepare our children for a rapidly changing world where turning back the clock is not an option. Even so, the jury is still out whether tech is helping our children grow into healthier, more creative and technically proficient adults; or, paradoxically, hindering the very capacities they'll need to navigate an evermore technologically demanding future.
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