June 17, 2022: Digital Detox
Links
- Nippon.com: “Digital detox” gains allure in Japan amid rising screen times
- Digital Detox Japan Website
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Remember life before smartphones and the internet? This week, we’re taking a fun trip down memory lane to 1990! We’ll play an interactive game to compare our lives ‘then and now,’ sharing stories and practicing useful phrases for talking about the past.
This activity uses a story to promote discussion and problem-solving skills. Students are put into small groups and given one paragraph of a story at a time. After reading each paragraph, the groups will discuss possible solutions or advice for the character in the story.
“Hangry” means to be bad tempered or irritable as a result of hunger. The word is making a comeback because of research that suggests “hanger” is a diagnosable feeling.
All of us from a very early age are told how to live our lives. We’re given stories about what the perfect life looks like and some of those stories work for some people some of the time but not all of us all of the time. There’s no checklist that each of us should tick off in order to live a perfect life.