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Navigating the Cyber World



Navigating the Cyber World

Cyber Safety Evening Tuesday, 7 May      7-8.30pm, School Hall Class 7-10 are exploring issues in the cyber realm, and how to navigate this world safely and with critical thinking. We are having a presentation from Tony Brewin, the Youth Resource Officer from the Fitzroy Police, to feed into the conversation, looking at issues of […]

Strangers in Our Homes: TV and Our Children’s Minds by Susan Johnson, M.D.



Strangers in Our Homes: TV and Our Children’s Minds by Susan Johnson, M.D.

US American pediatrician and Waldorf teacher Susan R.Johnson explains the fatal consequences of watching television and playing computer games on child-development in this article, published in Waldorf Today and The Online Waldorf Library . Drawing from brain research, she shows that children need natural, multi-sensory stimuli for their healthy development. TV rots the senses in […]

This Simple Solution to Smartphone Addiction is Now Used in 600 U.S. Schools



By Tara Bahrampour        Graham Dugoni was at a music festival in San Francisco in 2012 when he witnessed something that disturbed him. A man was dancing, uninhibited, perhaps drunk, losing himself in the moment. Some strangers thought it was funny, so they filmed it and uploaded it to YouTube. It’s the kind of […]