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Table of Contents
Text Audio
It’s “digital heroin”: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies
by Nicholas Kardaras
Writing Tasks
Title: S-8: Writing Across Texts Technology and Addiction
Session 8
Charts for Discussion
Title: S-1: Writing Across Texts Technology and Addiction
Session 1
Title: S-1: Kardaras: Unfamiliar Terms and Confusing Moments
Session 1
Title: S-1: Kardaras: Our Questions About Technology and Addiction
Session 1
Title: S-2: What We Learned About Identifying and Resolving Unfamiliar Terms or Difficult Moments
Session 2
Title: S-3: Kardaras’s Claims About Young People and Technology
Session 3
Title: S-5: What We Learned From Reading Becker
Session 5
Title: S-5: Becker: Unfamiliar Terms and Confusing Moments
Session 5
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