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Education-Fast Food vs. Home Cooking

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       “You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn’t stop to think if you should.”                                                      Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park      IPhones and adolescence do not mix well.  Sponge-like brains are being fed a constant direct flow of social media, streaming, and gaming, allowing for no time off, and filling in gaps of time like water fills in gaps of space.  This is especially true at night when sleep, increasingly important to brain development, should be occurring.  Instead, what we are seeing are sleep-deprived students with incredibly low levels of interest and problem solving in anything they don’t find ente...