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A New Study Says Excess Screen Time Affects Toddler Brain Development

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In what researchers of a new study on toddler’s screen time call “a vast uncontrolled experiment,” screens have been fully integrated into our work, homes and our child-rearing lives without much fanfare (and without much clarity on what it does to all of our brains.).

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Francesca Leithold of Epro: “Working from home is possible”

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Focus on reliable news sources and limit screen time / social media intake. Can you tell us a bit about your background? In fact, even when I was doing my master’s degree in Information Management, I was still focusing on a broad outlook. often not for a better outcome. Where do you come from? not the typical masters!

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How Geena Davis’ Groundbreaking Research is Helping Girls “See It” So They Can “Be It”

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Undeterred, Davis launched a non-profit organization, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media , to examine the problem of gender bias and commissioned detailed research. Calling all girls…quick, name your favorite show. How many lead characters are women or girls? How many look like you and your friends? We thought so.

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Ashley KZ Showell Of Forwardwithfun: “Reduce screen time”

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Reduce screen time. However, there is a thing as too much screen time. More and more studies are showing that too much screen time in younger children can lower their attention spans and limit engagement with the outside world. This is confidential information, and I was enraged to see kids often embarrassed publicly.

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In A Virtual World, It’s Time to Re-think Your Has Networking Strategy

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Especially our weak ties —the acquaintances, friends-of-friends, and casual colleagues —who are sources of novel, valuable information and serve as important social outlets. The conversations have been rich, varied, and global. Our social and professional networks are suffering, too. Importantly, there has been minimal downside.

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Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: We’re Suddenly All About Web Meetings

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Microphone-equipped headphones or earbuds paired to your device are a nice accessory, especially if you’ll be participating from outdoors or anywhere with the potential for distracting background noise. If you’ll be screen-sharing documents, do a dry run to make sure you can launch and navigate through them in-app.

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How’s Your Online Executive Presence?

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You still need to prepare for important meetings, have critical information close at hand, and give the agenda (please let there be one) an advance read-through. Do a tech check. Prep your background. Make sure you have a simple, uncluttered background. Consider a green screen. I call it online executive presence.