In MCS 222 I have always included a 24 hour media deprivation assignment that I adopted from Danna L. Walker which she wrote about in her Washington Post essay "The Longest Day."
Recently an episode of Modern Family featured a similar story line, where the Dunphy family competed to see who could go the longer without using their cell phone or the Internet. As I was reading some of the more current books that I was considering for this class, many included discussions of the benefit of disconnecting. I saw this essay on Salon the other day which was written by Susan Maushart, "When my kids unplugged."
As a mother she decided to restrict access to the Internet and cell phones at their home. She reports that the experiment was a huge success. How would your family change if you faced a similar ban?
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