Problem: The link to the article "It's Digital Heroin: How Screens Turn Kids into Psychotic Junkies" can be found at the bottom of Module 5. Read the article and then answer the questions below.
1. How young were you when you were first introduced to screen based technology? Does this seem like the correct age to you now? Need Assignment Help?
2. How much screen time do you think an elementary school aged kid like the one in the article needs each day? Should we be setting limits?
3. Is the "digital heroin" analogy just us panicking once again about a new technology? Some of the articles we've read have argued that every new media technology (from the invention of the printing press to radio to television to video games) has been met with overblown fears. Is this any different?
4. Is "addiction" the right word for compulsive screen use? Should we use a different term? Do you think digital or internet addiction really exists? Is there anything about it that suggests we should think about it differently than other addictions?