Jordan Shapiro
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first heard Apr 2019
last heard Apr 2019
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But then I also do research with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and also with the Brookings Institution.
I'm a fellow at both of those organizations doing research in a very broad way.
And I do a lot of consulting internationally, globally around questions of how's the world changing and how do we prepare kids for that changing world?
I think these were – as I said, these were ideas that I had been playing with for a long time.
I had actually been writing about them for a long time.
I wrote a column for Forbes for a long time about education and 21st century parenting and video games sometimes also.
I would just write about kids and games, all these sort of issues that are new to parents.
And then the time came where I felt like it really needed to be put into a long form.
And that was how I got to the book.
But the concern that really drove me more than the timeline, the concern that drove me is we're moving into a very different time, I think, for people in general.
I think that there's huge changes happening from a technological perspective, from an economic perspective, from a
political perspective, from a geopolitical perspective.
I mean, there's so much happening.
And these moments of transition really require that grownups put a lot of thought and intention into how we prepare our kids for it.
which is hard because at the same time, anything that's this big a change is really anxiety provoking because of the uncertainty and the fear and we don't know what to expect.
And so I really wanted to give parents sort of a vision of the future, a way of thinking about the future that made it less scary and less confusing.
And that's how the book came to be.
It often gets sort of
In the press, it often gets sold as this super pro screen time book.
This is the book about why screens are okay.
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