A third of my waking time is on my cell phone

This week, high school teacher Frederick Questads (43 years old) Clear screen time among pupils In the classroom, he caused justified attention.

Ironically, this story begins with the use of the screen in many ways – and at all ages.

Øestad got permission from nine students in the class to take a picture of the stats on the phone, which showed their average screen time per day, and what they spent time on.

Then, he sat down and wrote a shocking summary of the results on Facebook. Screen slaves shared his era and commented on the situation so much that it became news in many media outlets, including here at Dagbladet.

And numbers Really shocking. The average screen time per week among high school students in Øiestad was 45.5 hours per week. It is equivalent to a full working week plus one working day. Hours per day up to six and a half hours.

Shock though? Not for those who have children and young people at home.

My screen time is high enough, and close to that of high school students in Øestad: an average of five and a half hours per day so far this week. (That was before I sat down to focus on this text, and the clip went down a bit.) Without revealing my children, I can probably say that they pretty much match my stats.

This is also my responsibility, and herein lies part of the problem, of course. Establishing rules and restrictions requires will and ability in thousands of homes – to submit and follow them. Our tendency to use the screen is also an eternal source of double standards.

With five and a half hours (out of 24 per day) on screen for a man (41), one can safely say: Excessive screen use is a problem affecting more than children and young adults.

Nor can adult screen slaves, for example, claim that they are immune to failure in the ability to focus when screen time (on a mobile phone) creeps to cover a third of our waking hours. It’s disgusting.

What are we going to do about this? Not just for the little ones, but for all of us?

discussion afterwards From a survey of Øiestad students it was interesting to follow. On Dagsnytt 18 on Wednesday, a high school student spoke about what she experienced as a successful regulation of screen use at school. She was against closing or banning use, but said there was a significant impact of, among other things, requiring students to put computers away for certain parts of the lesson.

“Now you don’t need to take notes, now you can get rid of computers.”

Creating routines that free up focus and discover its value is a simple and good method.

The fight against the screen Not useless, but it depends on perspective. There’s a reason we’re drawn to the screen. In many cases it is absolutely wonderful. It is as much a gateway to the world, culture, humor and news as it is a thief of time.

At the end of the nineteenth century, there were debates about The danger of reading too many books. Novels can make the brain slack, stories can cause the truth to become disappointing by comparison, and reading novels can lead to an excessive interest in emotions. Reading about the dramatic fates in books can make you insensitive or insensitive to the drama in your life.

Times change, challenges change. Preaching continues, and it’s adaptable.

approach to Restricting screen use should be both hot and cold. One should realize the completely normal and indispensable role of the screen in everyone’s daily life, and at the same time do more research on successful organization. Research in the classrooms of secondary school teacher Øestad is a good contribution, and we should be curious about more research-oriented measures. Can you “nudge” us in the right direction. Should the screen time limit on our cell phones be something we set ourselves, or could it be a preset that we should actively remove?

Screens have become This is such an integral part of our lives that it’s something we might forget – how new it is as a governing factor for how we spend our time. It is not taken for granted that in 20-30 years we will have the same intensive time consumption. We should be more curious about what we can do to enjoy the benefits and fun of screen use, while limiting it.

When I was growing up, watching endless TV was the big, ugly, shameful habit. Now I know many parents who are anxiously trying to make it easier to share TV in the evenings, without cell phones, in order to create unity and share experiences.

What is considered healthy and good at any given time is a very relative matter. And confusing.