Title: The New Childhood Pdf Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World
Author: Jordan Shapiro
Published Date: 2019-01-01
Page: 304
"Timely, essential, and thought-provoking, The New Childhood is the must-read parenting guide for raising 21st century, digitally driven kids. Instead of raising a white flag and giving in to social media and the Internet, Jordan Shapiro tells parents how to embrace technology, stay involved in their children's lives, and prepare them for their future. Read it! I promise you'll rethink your parenting. I couldn't put it down"―Michele Borba, EdD, author of UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed In Our All-About-Me World"For those who lament what the 'app generation' may lack, Jordan Shapiro offers a timely, reassuring scenario."―Howard Gardner"The New Childhood is a must-read for parents and educators! It's an incredible resource for developing healthy families and kids in today's technology-enabled world, and pushes us beyond clinging to rules, traditions, and practices developed for a different era."―Wendy Kopp, CEO and co-founder of Teach For All and founder of Teach For AmericaPlacing modern child-rearing in the context of the long story of human cultural adaption, this manual makes the challenges of screens more approachable, and the adult role in meeting them clearer."―Publishers Weekly Jordan Shapiro, PhD, is a world-renowned American thought leader. He's currently Senior Fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, and Nonresident Fellow in the Global Economic and Development program at the Brookings Institution. He teaches in Temple University's Intellectual Heritage Program, and he wrote a column for Forbes' on global education, digital play, and family life from 2012 to 2017. He lives in Philadelphia with his two sons.Follow him on twitter: @jordoshVisit his website: www.jordanshapiro.org
In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, The New Childhood shows how technology is guiding humanity toward a bright future in which our children will be able to create new, better models of global citizenship, connection, and community.
Shapiro offers concrete, practical advice on how to parent and educate children effectively in a connected world, and provides tools and techniques for using technology to engage with kids and help them learn and grow. He compares this moment in time to other great technological revolutions in humanity's past and presents entertaining micro-histories of cultural fixtures: the sandbox, finger painting, the family dinner, and more. But most importantly, The New Childhood paints a timely, inspiring and positive picture of today's children, recognizing that they are poised to create a progressive, diverse, meaningful, and hyper-connected world that today's adults can only barely imagine.
A Refreshing Perspective on Technology and the Future of Education. “People never have to have their opinions challenged anymore. And when they’re forced to confront opposing ideas, they don’t know how to deal with it. Folks have this kind of tunnel vision that is obviously inadequate for a healthy connected society. Grownups need to purge that fatheadedness and intolerance right out of the next generation. It’s our duty. And it’s also an economic and political necessity.”Dr. Jordan Shapiro is not only a global thought leader, academic and advocate for the future of children’s education, he is a delightful common-sense author/storyteller who serves up a straightforward dose of reality to parents and readers who unjustifiably fear technological progress and believe that social media and gaming are the root causes of every societal vicissitude.In his debut book The New Childhood, Jordan serves as empathetic guide who deftly employs history, economics, emotional intelligence, and well-placed philosophy and logic of Stoics to set the stage for how children, all of us in fact, benefit from our digital connections. Yet, at the same time, he exhibits reverence for the all-very-human aspects of self. Jordan serves as a soulful bridge who joins current technology to what we desire the most – a safe haven, a center place of family gathering and memory building.Jordan provides everyday glimpses into how he parents his two boys, establishes restrictions for the usage of smartphones (not at the dinner table!), forms bonds through family gaming, and convincingly showcases how electronic communication technologies such as tablets, smartphones and laptops don’t threaten family time. It is the motivation for it. He also warns us as parents to be careful when talking about our children’s electronic devices as their sense of identities are connected to online avatars. In other words, to speak negatively of how they connect to others is to speak negatively to who they are.His personal stories helped me to remember how immersed I was in anything television (it was a black & white picture RCA beauty connected to a rabbit-ear, aluminum-foil wrapped antenna), as a kid. I couldn’t get enough, including commercials. In 1972, I recall my mother lamenting how dangerous watching so much television was for my development. Sort of how we as parents today feel about smartphones and other devices. The fear was unwarranted then. It is now. My studies didn’t suffer. I was an advanced student, yet there was something about that evil television that really got to her.Jordan shines when it comes to his ideas about the education system and how it must be transformed for children to learn how to flourish as productive, effective adults in a connected world. He provides refreshing and, in some instances, radical alternatives to the archaic, grade-based, testing-intense structure which primarily rewards youth for memorization when critical thinking skills are urgently required. From revamped classroom setups to educational curriculum, down to the educators themselves, Jordan urges an open exchange of knowledge and skills with educators as guides who facilitate the flow of participatory engagement and provide an intellectual sandbox for children to develop skill sets which allow them to prosper within a digitally connected future.In Jordan’s sage words – And this hit me hard: “Our current education system teaches kids to see themselves as rigid vessels. But the world demands that they be porous membranes.”Frankly, I’m in awe of how Jordan as an advocate for traditional boundaries of family, home and hearth, can also so convincingly make the argument that the synergy of human plus digital has potential to raze intellectual walls and allow today’s children to gain empathy, balance and tolerance.This book is a game changer and will earmark Jordan as the educator’s mentor for a new age. Parents are going to learn what’s required for their children to interact very human yet very virtual at the same time.Makes a persuasive case... Shapiro weaves history, learning theory, and personal observations into a compelling & optimistic philosophical/social commentary.Worthy of a read by anyone concerned with how our increasingly hyperconnected world impacts the education & development of children.I'm a sales executive in technology... my perspective was disrupted and changed, Thank You. I summarize my review as written by Jordan Shapiro, my added comment in [ ]. "To avoid conflict, uncertainty, and political unrest in the future, we will need to be more intentional about how we prepare kids [ourselves, our business’, society, our politics, our education system, our country, and our world] to live together in a connected world. Let’s make sure that children have a strong sense of identity and that they don’t feel threatened by cultural diversity. Let’s show them how to express their distinct personalities with the networked technologies at their disposal. They need to know how to use new media to articulate their unique sense of self while simultaneously sustaining the dignity and value of global difference and diversity." (Shapiro, Jordan. The New Childhood (p. 255)
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