Growing up Healthy in a World of Digital Media

What parents and educators should know: Digital media affects brain development. A video for parents, educators, teachers and parents’ evenings. Smartphones, tablet PCs, PC gaming - the world in which our children live is changing rapidly. What do children need for healthy brain development? What are the risks of smartphones and surfing the Internet? How does cell phone and Internet addiction develop, what does sensory overload do to children? This film shows how these risks can be avoided? We want our children to grow up to be healthy, self-confident and intelligent people who can later cope well with the complex demands of life. For this to succeed, every child needs a variety of sensory experiences, it needs very different movements, motivation and empathy. This is how the child’s brain can develop in an all-round way. This video is based on the findings of neurobiology. A 40 minute long version in German of this video presents the findings of science and pedagogy in greater depth. It can be ordered from diagnose:funk as DVD: 0:00 Growing up Healthy in a World of Digital Media 2:41 Motion 5:38 Neuroplasticity 13:05 Digitale Addiction 15:23 Radiation from Mobile Devices 17:34 The Book Accompanying the Film 18:35 End Credits