Social media & mental health
Social media/tech giants Google & Meta have been found liable & “negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people.” A Los…
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Third Culture, Liminality & Hybridity
Probably the first Australian American Singaporean you have met. This was the Whatsapp status update from my eldest son the day he arrived in Melbourne,…
International Day of Education
The United Nations (UN) designates & observes specific days, weeks, years & decades as occasions to mark particular events or topics in order to promote…
AI & the global population
Francesco Sisci writes an interesting article on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), suggesting a providential link with the falling global birthrate.He examines the population…
Global Voices Report | Lausanne
The Lausanne Movement has released its Global Voices Report, compiled by Lausanne’s new LIGHT department (Lausanne Insights for Global Horizons and Trends), a wide-ranging snapshot…
First millennial saint – Carlos Acutis
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg5me8dvloCarlos Acutis, a British-born Italian teenager who died of leukaemia at age 15 in 2006, has been canonised by Pope Leo XIV as the first…
Tips for parents of teens in a technology-crazed world
A good article was recently published on tips for parents of teens in a technology-crazed world. They also talk about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats…
Reaching millennials
https://theunstuckgroup.com/reaching-millennialsTiffany Deluccia from Unstuck Group wrote a post on reaching millennials. If we refuse to engage on a personal level with the people we go…
How to get your kids away from that smartphone
Smartphones, as most if not all of us would know today, are mobile phones with advanced mobile operating systems, combining other mobile devices such as…
A hyper-socialized generation
Wall Street Journal recently published an article, ‘The Greatest Generation (of Networkers),’ in which it relates a story of a 17-year-old high school student who…