With some application, you can get a good degree and learn something about money management at university. In the first term of my history and politics degree from Queen Mary, University of London, I had great difficulty staying afloat. I took out the full student finance available of 9,000 for the first year, but I […]
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It is a grim irony that Julie Bertagna’s best-selling teenage book, Exodus, concerns a 15-year-old girl seeking refuge in a fractured, dystopian world, unwelcoming to outsiders. The Scottish author, a supporter of the “remain” campaign, contacted Nicola Sturgeon in the aftermath of the Brexit vote to tell the first minister that her daughter, who had […]
Extreme digital detox
This summer, there will be no hunting for pidgeys, charizards and vaporeons on Pokémon Go, or hours spent filtering selfies to post on Snapchat, for Skylar, 11, Cassie, 5, Maggie, 4, and twins Benjamin and Alexander, 14 months. Their parents, Toby and Katie Shea, have taken drastic action to give their iGeneration children a technology […]
Take tablets from schools, says tsar
THE technology revolution in schools has been thrown into doubt by the government’s new school behaviour tsar, who believes children should be kept away from iPads for as long as possible.
Smartphones and selfie culture: what are you teaching your child?
Do your children have to vie with your smartphone for your attention in the evenings? Do you feel twitchy in the mornings if you haven’t checked your messages? Having pooh-poohed them a couple of years ago, have you embraced the selfie (ironically, of course)? Then perhaps it’s not your children’s use of technology that you […]
Children of Silicon Valley have strict rules on screen time
When Steve Jobs was asked what his three young children thought of the iPad, the reply came as something of a shock. “They haven’t used it,” he said, as boss of Apple in 2010, shortly after the device’s launch. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
Taking off: what’s new in the world
Holiday with SpongeBob Got kids, or a penchant for hallucinogens? This bizarre new holiday retreat works equally well for both demographics. Modelled on the home of SpongeBob SquarePants, the luxury two-bedroom villa is at Nickelodeon’s Punta Cana resort, in the Dominican Republic. It’s a faithful representation of the children’s TV character’s pineapple dwelling, with a […]
Antisocial media: why smartphones make us dumb parents
Picking up her iPhone, Sherry Turkle stuffs it into her handbag. “I’m putting my phone away,” she declares, zipping it into a pocket with a theatrical flourish. “The very presence of a phone on the table is a distraction. Even silent phones inhibit conversations.”