The Importance of Digital Literacy With Youth
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Frost is the Co-Founder of Wired Human and author of The Glass Between Us. In this episode, Lisa discusses her work with kids and parents to discuss the harms of pornography, the correlation between screen time and mental health, and the importance of digital literacy for youth. Lisa also shares her experience doing a 30-day "digital reset," hiking on the Appalachian Trail with her family without devices, and the impact that had on their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Lisa Frost is the co-founder of Wired Human and co-authored The Glass Between Us. |
| 0:05.0 | In this episode, Lisa discusses her work with kids and parents to discuss the harms of pornography, |
| 0:11.0 | the correlation between screen time and mental health, and the importance of digital literacy for youth. |
| 0:17.0 | Lisa also shares her experience doing a 30-day digital reset, hiking on the Appalachian Trail with her family without devices and the impact that had on their lives. |
| 0:27.9 | With that, let's jump into the conversation. |
| 0:31.3 | We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming. |
| 0:37.8 | Well, why don't you start off with the basics, Lisa? |
| 0:41.5 | Tell us who you are, where you're from, what you're up to, why you're joining us on the |
| 0:48.1 | podcast, all those basics. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, my name is Lisa Frost. |
| 0:51.9 | I am the co-founder of Wired Human, which is a nonprofit that raises |
| 0:57.2 | up teens and kids to become the first line of defense against online harm and exploitation. |
| 1:03.7 | And that is my heart and passion. That is what I do from morning to the night. |
| 1:08.4 | Outside of also being a mom and raising a bunch of littles myself, |
| 1:13.1 | and the rest of the time I have available. And yeah, I love the work of Fight the New Drug. In fact, |
| 1:19.4 | they inspired us years ago to join with each other and a bunch of allies to launch this |
| 1:27.2 | non-profit years later. And also, we wrote a bit of a bunch of allies to launch this nonprofit years later. |
| 1:29.0 | And also, we wrote a book too on this theme. |
| 1:33.1 | That is actually what kicked us off. |
| 1:34.8 | The glass between us is our book. |
| 1:37.7 | My husband and I co-authored it together. |
| 1:40.8 | And it's basically compiling all the research and ideas to use media in a value-driven way. |
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