Digital Wellness: Taking Control of your Online Life
The digital age, with its never-ending addition of new devices, apps and updates, constantly challenges our capacity to take care of our personal well-being and maintain a healthy and balanced relationship with technology. Digital Wellness is a measure of how well we are able todo this. This timely book presents you with seven aspects of digital wellness and five ways to achieve digital wellness in your personal as well as professional life. The topics discussed aim at helping you to leverage the advantages of technology while curtailing its potential harm. In addition, the book is helpful in evaluating your digital habits and engagements so as to ensure that the benefits digital media provides are not to be overweighed by their bad and harmful results, thereby helping you to lead a productive, plentiful, and happy life.
Raising a Digital Generation
The digital age is here to stay, and parents everywhere do wonder as to its revolutionary effects on their kids. When it comes to kids using technology, the unease is often stronger than enthusiasm. Why are kids attached to digital devices? How much screen time is too much? What are the potential risks of their online exposure and interaction? How can they be helped to navigate safely on the digital highway? These questions are just samples of the widespread worries raised by not just parents and teachers, but by adults in general who are concerned about the digital present and are interested in shaping the digital future. Raising a Digital Generation is a timely resource that clarifies all the above doubts, apart from tackling much more complex issues concerning kids’ relationship with digital technology. Rich in practical tips, the book is highly recommended as a guide for parents and teachers for achieving greater understanding and confidence as they raise kids to be successful digital citizens, its contents making for compelling reading for everyone in authority who sincerely wants to understand the new world in which we and our kids have our being.
Parenting in Digital Age
Solving media-related problems thrown up by children can be quite daunting. That is the challenge this little book helps the reader tackle effectively.
Challenges of the Digital Age
The digital media is certainly a great blessing that propels human progress in a tremendous way when used well. Sadly, however, it is often misused, even abused, bringing the great harm to all and sundry. In this context, both parents and teachers have a great responsibility and a major role to play. That responsibility and role is made easier with the interesting information, useful suggestions and inspiring thoughts about being a smart teacher in a smart-tech digital age. The contents present vividly the real challenges and demands of the digital world and propose appropriate practical actions for arriving at viable solutions. Its value is enhanced by judicious use of purposeful and relevant anecdotes, stories, poems and quotations, whereby teachers, parents and all who work with young people will find it highly useful.
Consecrated Life in the Digital age: What every Consecrated Person should know
Consecrated Life in the Digital Age lucidly provides an adequate understanding of religious usage of digital media: how to engage in it in a manner ‘purifying and perfecting’ our living of the Consecrated life (cf Vita Consecrata, 80). Reading this book with an open mind would do the user immense good in that its contents would influence a change in the way one manages the risks and challenges media usage poses to a consecrated person.
101 Ways to Use Social Media to do Good
Discover the transformative potential of social media in this engaging and thought-provoking exploration of humanity’s favourite past-time. This book identifies 101 very simple actions that social media users can take, starting today, in order to make appositive impact in our own lives, in the lives of others, and in the world.