'Rewilding' the smartphone generation: one school's story
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
With young people in Britain and across the world increasingly reliant on smartphones, and many teens now openly admitting they’re addicted to social media, could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage, and what should we as a society do to stop it?
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| 1:17.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. I fully admit it. I am an addict. According to my mobile, I spend more hours looking at it every day than I spend doing almost anything else. |
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