Our resistance to digital play is like Socrates' resistance to the written word. It is futile. Your children need your help.
And it's easy to achieve. Parents, children, and families simply need to start having fun together in the digital world.
Jordan Shapiro, "The New Digital Childhood"
A provocative look at the new digital landscape of childhood, with tips on how to navigate it.
Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, Jordan Shapiro's The New Childhood shows how technology is leading humanity toward a brighter future in which our children can create new and better models of global civic engagement, connection, and community.
Shapiro offers concrete, practical advice on how to effectively raise and educate children in a globalized new world and provides tools and techniques for using technology to communicate with children and help them learn and develop. He compares the current period to other major technological revolutions in human history and presents entertaining micro-stories of cultural elements like the sandbox, finger painting, family dinner, and more. "A New Childhood" presents a hopeful counterpoint to the timid hand-wringing that characterizes the contemporary narrative about children and technology and presents a timely, inspiring, and positive picture of today's children, who will be poised to create a world that is progressive, diverse, meaningful, and connected in many ways—a world that today's adults cannot even imagine.
Dr. Jordan Shapiro is an internationally recognized American author and researcher. He teaches at Temple University's Intellectual Heritage Program and wrote for Forbes from 2012 to 2017 on global education, digital play, and family life. He lives in Philadelphia with his two sons.
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Our resistance to digital play is like Socrates' resistance to the written word. It is futile. Your children need your help.
And it's easy to achieve. Parents, children, and families simply need to start having fun together in the digital world.
Jordan Shapiro, "The New Digital Childhood"
A provocative look at the new digital landscape of childhood, with tips on how to navigate it.
Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, Jordan Shapiro's The New Childhood shows how technology is leading humanity toward a brighter future in which our children can create new and better models of global civic engagement, connection, and community.
Shapiro offers concrete, practical advice on how to effectively raise and educate children in a globalized new world and provides tools and techniques for using technology to communicate with children and help them learn and develop. He compares the current period to other major technological revolutions in human history and presents entertaining micro-stories of cultural elements like the sandbox, finger painting, family dinner, and more. "A New Childhood" presents a hopeful counterpoint to the timid hand-wringing that characterizes the contemporary narrative about children and technology and presents a timely, inspiring, and positive picture of today's children, who will be poised to create a world that is progressive, diverse, meaningful, and connected in many ways—a world that today's adults cannot even imagine.
Dr. Jordan Shapiro is an internationally recognized American author and researcher. He teaches at Temple University's Intellectual Heritage Program and wrote for Forbes from 2012 to 2017 on global education, digital play, and family life. He lives in Philadelphia with his two sons.
Detailed information can be found on the following subpages:
Exchanges and returns
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