Those who are asking for screen-time limits are people who seek to relieve children from what writer Paul Kingsnorth calls "the eye-glaze of screen burn."
It is a quest for a healthy relationship to technology instead of the almost worshipful stance currently held by so many in Ed Tech.
A healthy relationship to technology is one where all the world, digital to analog, is in the toolbox.
A healthy relationship to technology is not an endless quest to elevate it to the "go-to solution."
A health relationship to technology is the recognition and acknowledgment that even though technology might be used, sometimes it does not have to be nor should it.
A healthy relationship to technology is valuing the human over the Machine always.
Finally, a healthy relationship to technology is one where devices are not a constant intrusion and distraction; they are simply a toaster sitting in the background and used when needed and not a device constantly beeping like a little child, demanding our attention.
Screen time limits and bans have arisen because of the excesses of a Ed Tech discipline and industry agenda that so desperately wants devices on every desk, in every hand and used during every lesson.
It is time to remove the glitter, gleam and dazzle from devices and treat them as we have microwaves, clocks, watches and power saws: as simply tools.
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