Ebook The New Childhood Raising Kids to Thrive in a Digitally Connected World Audible Audio Edition Jordan Shapiro Yellow Kite Books
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How kids can live, learn and love in a digital world.
In The New Childhood, world-renowned global policy and education pioneer Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy and education, The New Childhood underscores how technology is guiding humanity toward a bright future in which children will be able to create new, better models of global citizenship, connection and community.
Dividing the book into four sections - Self, Home, School and Society - Shapiro offers concrete, practical advice on how to parent and educate children effectively in a connected world and provides tools and techniques for using technology to engage with kids and help them learn and grow. He also draws on his own experience as a father of two sons, which helps bring the narrative to life.
He compares the current moment to other great technological revolutions in humanity's past and presents entertaining micro-histories of cultural minutiae the sandbox, finger painting, the family dinner and more. Most importantly, The New Childhood paints a timely, inspiring and positive picture of today's children, recognising that they are poised to create a progressive, diverse, meaningful and hyperconnected world that today's adults can only imagine.Â
Ebook The New Childhood Raising Kids to Thrive in a Digitally Connected World Audible Audio Edition Jordan Shapiro Yellow Kite Books
"“People never have to have their opinions challenged anymore. And when they’re forced to confront opposing ideas, they don’t know how to deal with it. Folks have this kind of tunnel vision that is obviously inadequate for a healthy connected society. Grownups need to purge that fatheadedness and intolerance right out of the next generation. It’s our duty. And it’s also an economic and political necessity.â€
Dr. Jordan Shapiro is not only a global thought leader, academic and advocate for the future of children’s education, he is a delightful common-sense author/storyteller who serves up a straightforward dose of reality to parents and readers who unjustifiably fear technological progress and believe that social media and gaming are the root causes of every societal vicissitude.
In his debut book The New Childhood, Jordan serves as empathetic guide who deftly employs history, economics, emotional intelligence, and well-placed philosophy and logic of Stoics to set the stage for how children, all of us in fact, benefit from our digital connections. Yet, at the same time, he exhibits reverence for the all-very-human aspects of self. Jordan serves as a soulful bridge who joins current technology to what we desire the most – a safe haven, a center place of family gathering and memory building.
Jordan provides everyday glimpses into how he parents his two boys, establishes restrictions for the usage of smartphones (not at the dinner table!), forms bonds through family gaming, and convincingly showcases how electronic communication technologies such as tablets, smartphones and laptops don’t threaten family time. It is the motivation for it. He also warns us as parents to be careful when talking about our children’s electronic devices as their sense of identities are connected to online avatars. In other words, to speak negatively of how they connect to others is to speak negatively to who they are.
His personal stories helped me to remember how immersed I was in anything television (it was a black & white picture RCA beauty connected to a rabbit-ear, aluminum-foil wrapped antenna), as a kid. I couldn’t get enough, including commercials. In 1972, I recall my mother lamenting how dangerous watching so much television was for my development. Sort of how we as parents today feel about smartphones and other devices. The fear was unwarranted then. It is now. My studies didn’t suffer. I was an advanced student, yet there was something about that evil television that really got to her.
Jordan shines when it comes to his ideas about the education system and how it must be transformed for children to learn how to flourish as productive, effective adults in a connected world. He provides refreshing and, in some instances, radical alternatives to the archaic, grade-based, testing-intense structure which primarily rewards youth for memorization when critical thinking skills are urgently required. From revamped classroom setups to educational curriculum, down to the educators themselves, Jordan urges an open exchange of knowledge and skills with educators as guides who facilitate the flow of participatory engagement and provide an intellectual sandbox for children to develop skill sets which allow them to prosper within a digitally connected future.
In Jordan’s sage words – And this hit me hard: “Our current education system teaches kids to see themselves as rigid vessels. But the world demands that they be porous membranes.â€
Frankly, I’m in awe of how Jordan as an advocate for traditional boundaries of family, home and hearth, can also so convincingly make the argument that the synergy of human plus digital has potential to raze intellectual walls and allow today’s children to gain empathy, balance and tolerance.
This book is a game changer and will earmark Jordan as the educator’s mentor for a new age. Parents are going to learn what’s required for their children to interact very human yet very virtual at the same time."
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The New Childhood Raising Kids to Thrive in a Digitally Connected World Audible Audio Edition Jordan Shapiro Yellow Kite Books Reviews
- I summarize my review as written by Jordan Shapiro, my added comment in [ ]. "To avoid conflict, uncertainty, and political unrest in the future, we will need to be more intentional about how we prepare kids [ourselves, our business’, society, our politics, our education system, our country, and our world] to live together in a connected world. Let’s make sure that children have a strong sense of identity and that they don’t feel threatened by cultural diversity. Let’s show them how to express their distinct personalities with the networked technologies at their disposal. They need to know how to use new media to articulate their unique sense of self while simultaneously sustaining the dignity and value of global difference and diversity." (Shapiro, Jordan. The New Childhood (p. 255)
- Such a great book! Highly recommend for parents of kids that are on electronics and games. Very good background about how the childhood of our children differs from our childhood and that of our parents.
- I was very excited to get this book and dive in. I have studied childhood and human development for almost 10 years now and this book was one of the most enlightening books I have read in that time. The way that Jordan talks about children as active agents in their development is special and unique. Even further, the way that he explains the ways that we are failing our children by not working with them as they explore the 21st centuries most prevalent tool technology. We are really living in a world of new childhood and Jordan does a great job of exploring what this means across sectors of our life.
- Makes a lot more sense now. Heck my kid loves Mario Party, possibly the worst game ever, but after reading the book it makes more sense. True MP is just a board game done electronically with mini games. After reading the book I've allowed myself to step back and play the game with my kid just because he finds it fun. I still hate it, but I tolerate that one and enjoy the laughter it brings.
- I'm disappointed to not have received the book that I was originally very enthusiastic about reading. Due to all the problems with receiving the book from this vendor along with the lack of support.
I do think this is a interesting topic and will continue to research the subject of technology and the information age and how it is affecting our young people now growing up in this new environment. - An instant classic. Deep, thoughtful, well researched and thought provoking.
It will change your outlook on so many things you took for granted.
A must-read for every parent and every teacher. - I am glad he wrote what he is passionate about but this book is wrong on so many levels. This book literally tells parents it is okay that your kids are on screens for x amount of time and there is no correlation between childrens attention, real social life and screen time. I really was in shock reading the things he feels are okay or normal with screen time, to me they seem isolating and sad. If you are a parent and thinking about how to manager your kids screen time, do not read this unless you want an out and someone else to blame for their behavior after they abuse their time on tech.
- “People never have to have their opinions challenged anymore. And when they’re forced to confront opposing ideas, they don’t know how to deal with it. Folks have this kind of tunnel vision that is obviously inadequate for a healthy connected society. Grownups need to purge that fatheadedness and intolerance right out of the next generation. It’s our duty. And it’s also an economic and political necessity.â€
Dr. Jordan Shapiro is not only a global thought leader, academic and advocate for the future of children’s education, he is a delightful common-sense author/storyteller who serves up a straightforward dose of reality to parents and readers who unjustifiably fear technological progress and believe that social media and gaming are the root causes of every societal vicissitude.
In his debut book The New Childhood, Jordan serves as empathetic guide who deftly employs history, economics, emotional intelligence, and well-placed philosophy and logic of Stoics to set the stage for how children, all of us in fact, benefit from our digital connections. Yet, at the same time, he exhibits reverence for the all-very-human aspects of self. Jordan serves as a soulful bridge who joins current technology to what we desire the most – a safe haven, a center place of family gathering and memory building.
Jordan provides everyday glimpses into how he parents his two boys, establishes restrictions for the usage of smartphones (not at the dinner table!), forms bonds through family gaming, and convincingly showcases how electronic communication technologies such as tablets, smartphones and laptops don’t threaten family time. It is the motivation for it. He also warns us as parents to be careful when talking about our children’s electronic devices as their sense of identities are connected to online avatars. In other words, to speak negatively of how they connect to others is to speak negatively to who they are.
His personal stories helped me to remember how immersed I was in anything television (it was a black & white picture RCA beauty connected to a rabbit-ear, aluminum-foil wrapped antenna), as a kid. I couldn’t get enough, including commercials. In 1972, I recall my mother lamenting how dangerous watching so much television was for my development. Sort of how we as parents today feel about smartphones and other devices. The fear was unwarranted then. It is now. My studies didn’t suffer. I was an advanced student, yet there was something about that evil television that really got to her.
Jordan shines when it comes to his ideas about the education system and how it must be transformed for children to learn how to flourish as productive, effective adults in a connected world. He provides refreshing and, in some instances, radical alternatives to the archaic, grade-based, testing-intense structure which primarily rewards youth for memorization when critical thinking skills are urgently required. From revamped classroom setups to educational curriculum, down to the educators themselves, Jordan urges an open exchange of knowledge and skills with educators as guides who facilitate the flow of participatory engagement and provide an intellectual sandbox for children to develop skill sets which allow them to prosper within a digitally connected future.
In Jordan’s sage words – And this hit me hard “Our current education system teaches kids to see themselves as rigid vessels. But the world demands that they be porous membranes.â€
Frankly, I’m in awe of how Jordan as an advocate for traditional boundaries of family, home and hearth, can also so convincingly make the argument that the synergy of human plus digital has potential to raze intellectual walls and allow today’s children to gain empathy, balance and tolerance.
This book is a game changer and will earmark Jordan as the educator’s mentor for a new age. Parents are going to learn what’s required for their children to interact very human yet very virtual at the same time.
