Talk:Screen time

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2019 and 6 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): MMireles-usc, Charlieblambert, Melissvr, Salomeyosef. Peer reviewers: Ntakru, Akishigo, YasminHZ.

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I'll be back
I'll be back to fix it up. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:59, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

I am a college student who over the next few days will be adding some information and revising this article, I will start in my sandbox and plot my strategies for organizing the data then I shall bring it over to the published page. Awalcant (talk) 17:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

This article provides a good connection between screen time with sleep disturbance and the impact is has on a child and obesity. From this review, the statistics were impressing and at the same time concerning with the increasing use of screen time among children and adults. The phrase, " too much screen time can affect a child's health," described the subject in a clear way because it provided the topic of of the subject and the cause and effect all in one sentence. Although, I would suggest to re-word some sentences such as the last sentence in the second paragraph and add a sentence or two about the statistics related to screen time and obesity if you can find one. The most important thing that you can do to improve this article is to add a sentence about the average amount of sleep a child gets to compare with the amount of screen time and how it is making their sleep time decrease. Niphapone Chisouvanh (talk) 20:04, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Discussion: Adding Screen Time Management as a Subtopic
Hello Fellow Wikipedians, I am a new wikipedia contributor. I have been interested in the digital healthcare space, and recently followed the likes of Apple/Google launching efforts to manage digital screen time (or as they call it 'digital wellbeing'). Since I found an existing topic on the subject, I was wondering whether it could be worth adding a sub-section to this topic regarding screen-time management (i.e. efforts to manage use of technology devices for better digital wellbeing). If you think it could be worth adding the sub-topic, I would be happy to draft an outline- look forward to your thoughts!Akhilk27 (talk) 12:22, 19 October 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akhilk27 (talk • contribs) 12:19, 19 October 2018 (UTC) Akhilk27 (talk) 12:21, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:NOTHOWTO as a starting point. It is perhaps reasonable to add a section regarding the development of screen time management applications, but be careful not to veer into the realms of instruction or advocacy. Wikipedia isn't here to tell people what applications to use, or that they should be using any at all, or how to use them.  You must also be careful not to advocate for one application over another, and to use reliable, independent third-party sources, not primary sources and not regurgitations or republications of press releases that emanate from application developers.  I am very concerned that this topic is going to become a vehicle for covert promotional content, whether intentionally or unintentionally.  (Also be cognizant that your usage of the word "space" above and in comparable contexts is marketing/bizspeak jargon that shouldn't be used in an encyclopedia.  "Digital wellbeing" is a garbage buzzphrase and your use of "idiot quotes" around it in the first instance was appropriate; it should never be used seriously in the encyclopedia.) Thanks for your appropriate talk-page suggestion! -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  17:20, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi my name is Angel what if you had  time for screen time and also  please give me update on this  topic screen time thank you 102.88.70.76 (talk) 18:47, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose to merge Electronic media and sleep into Screen time, given that there is already a section here on screen time and sleep disturbances. Allopathie (talk) 08:05, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree with the merge proposal, --E.3 (talk) 11:16, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 10:08, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Digital Citizenship
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Adding Edits to Environmental section
Hello - I was hoping to add the below sentence to the environmental affects section. Please let me know your thoughts.

"With studies showing an increase of screen time occurring and nature inspired activities simultaneously decreasing for youth in financially stabilized countries, mental health issues were becoming a connection to high screen time levels. The higher the count in activities spent experiencing the outdoors produced positive results in mental health among adolescents."https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237725

Based on information from source under : 1.1 Background (Paragraph 5) & 3.5 Delineation of reciprocal effects of ST and GT on psychological outcomes (first 3 paragraphs) CUStudentFJ (talk) 18:44, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Brain Tips
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Adding Edits to Academic Performance section
Hello! I am a new editor, and I am looking to add the following to the section written on academic performance. I am very interested in health and psychology, so this article is of great interest to me. I feel as though this article could benefit from a bit more information about the negative effects of screen time on academic performance. It talks more about the positive effects, so I found some research for the other side. Please share any thoughts or opinions.

"Research shows that children who lack guidance from their mothers are more likely to overuse screen time and also to struggle academically. Those with more prevalent maternal interference in their online activities tend to have more controlled screen time. These children also watched more educational content when online versus their counterparts with less parental control. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/6/596 Educational content consumed during time allotted for digital use is shown to be positively associated with academic achievement. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/6/596 Their lower academic performances were marked by decreases in grade averages in both math and in literature." https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/6/596

I will appropriately cite sources both in-text and in the references section if this content looks appropriate to add to the article. Bluebird107 (talk) 14:36, 27 March 2023 (UTC)


 * MDPI is a predatory publisher. It would be better to cite almost anything else. MrOllie (talk) 14:42, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for telling me! I will look into a different source and will not use MDPI. Bluebird107 (talk) 14:44, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm not sure what happened, but MDPI was only supposed to be linked once out of the three links in my previous post. My other sources were https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/118/4/e1061/69068/Association-Between-Television-Movie-and-Video and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24694193.2019.1675805 Bluebird107 (talk) 14:49, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

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