Posts Tagged ‘Sherry Turkle’
Posted by Marti Weston on April 3, 2012
The TED Talk site just posted the most recent lecture by MIT professor and psychologist Sherry Turkle. It’s embedded below.
In her presentation Professor Turkle illustrates several of the most compelling issues from her recent book, Alone Together. She points out that technology may give us an illusion of togetherness with others, but she challenges us to understand that digital connectedness is not a substitute for person-to-person interaction.
- Are we hiding from each other even as we are connected?
- With fewer face-to-face conversations with one another are we less able to learn how to have conversations with ourselves?
- Do feelings that no one is really listening to us make us want to spend more time with machines that make us feel like these devices are listening to us?
- Are people increasingly willing to settle for the pretend empathy of devices and robots?
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Posted in cell phones, digital learning, digital parenting, electronic communication, online communication, parent child conversations, parents and technology | Tagged: Alone Together, communication, connected world, devices, digital kids, digital parenting, gadgets, MIT, Sherry Turkle, TED Talks | 2 Comments »
Posted by Marti Weston on March 12, 2012
Sherry Turkle's 2012 TED Talk
NPR’s All Tech Considered blog has posted a thought-provoking piece on privacy (February 29, 2012).
In New Ways to Think About Online Privacy, Nina Gregory shares what she heard at TED Long Beach where some major technology thinkers and innovators (some speakers, some attenders) shared their thoughts about what Gregory calls “privacy hygiene” (and about what they might be teaching their kids about the subject).
You may not have heard of some of the companies represented, but the thoughts about privacy are worth reading.
In Gregory’s article read about the thoughts of: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in digital citizenship, digital parenting, electronic communication, online tracking, parents and technology, privacy | Tagged: All Tech Considered, digital parenting, Nina Gregory, privacy, Sherry Turkle, TED Long Beach, Wired Magazine | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Marti Weston on March 6, 2011
I am reading Sherry Turkle’s book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Ourselves. Turkle is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Last Friday she was Ira Flatow’s guest on the NPR’s Science Friday program. Professor Turkle explained how she interviewed more than 300 children and teens who described feeling immense frustration when their parents use technology gadgets at the same time they are supposed to be interacting with their kids.
The Alone Together author, quoted in a January 31, 2011 Washington Post article, AnyBody: Parents are Ignoring their Children for their BlackBerry, points out, “It’s now children who are complaining about their parents’ habits…” During the Science Friday interview Turkle identified five times when children want their parents to put away their phones, Blackberries, and other gadgets and to pay attention. They include: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in cultural changes, digital citizenship, digital devices and gadgets, family conversations, parents and technology | Tagged: Alone Together, digital parenting, gadgets, generations, Science Friday, Sherry Turkle, tech-free time | 6 Comments »
Posted by Marti Weston on February 1, 2011
We’ve all seen them. Perhaps people have seen one of us. The temptation to use a phone or smart device, no matter where we are or what we are doing — even when we are with our kids — is way, way too strong.
I keep seeing children being pushed around by people (parents?) on telephones. Sometimes children are playing along in yards or parks, not watched over because the parents are tapping or merely talking on their smart phones. The trouble is, this used to be quality time – enjoyable and relaxed interaction — pointing out dogs, discovering leaves, and learning new words for all sorts of things.
Read Anybody: Parents are Ignoring their Children for their Blackberry in the February 1. 2011 Washington Post. Here’s a short quote, but check out the whole article. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in acceptable use, cell phones, digital devices and gadgets, digital parenting, parent child conversations, parents and technology | Tagged: mobile phones, parents and technology, Sherry Turkle, smart phones, Washington Post | 1 Comment »
The TED Talk site just posted the most recent lecture by MIT professor and psychologist Sherry Turkle. It’s embedded below.
