We need Less Screens in Schools

 Another great talk from the ARC Conference (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship).  This one detailing the negative impacts of screen-time for children and youth, and the complete lack of empirical basis for introducing screens for "educational purposes" into schools.

Despite the lobbying and marketing from software companies, he only evidence we have suggests a negative correlation between increased use of tablets and smartphones for "educational" purposes and actual educational outcomes - with all the other negative effects of screens on developing brains thrown in as well.  

If you love children, don't miss this talk: 

Bishop Barron: Civilization needs God

 Here is a great talk from the ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) Conference from Roman Catholic bishop Robert Barron.  He contents (rightly, in my view) that a renewal of Western Civilization requires God, it requires the lifting up of our gaze - our desires and ambitions - beyond the self, to the Infinite Source of Goodness, Wisdom, Truth, and Beauty.  

"Don't buy into the modern lie that belief in God constrains the human spirit; the exact opposite is true!"