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Slaying digital dragons : tips and tools for protecting your body, brain, psyche, and thumbs from the digital dark side / Alex J. Packer.
"This frank and humorous guide helps teens learn how to lead a safe and healthy digital life, join the resistance, and protect themselves from Big Tech's attempted takeover of their brain, body, emotions, privacy, and future"-- Provided by publisher.
There's a battle on the internet for your clicks, cash, attention, and data. You may not be able to control what Big Tech does, but Parker provides a frank and humorous guide to help teens learn how to lead a safe and healthy digital life. He shares tips and uses challenges and quizzes to make you realize all the ways (positive and negative) that the digital world affects you, your relationships, and your privacy--and how you can take control. Reset your online-offline balance, and maybe even use your screens to do good in the world!--Adapted from back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631985966
- ISBN: 1631985965
- ISBN: 9781713775393
- ISBN: 1713775395
- Physical Description: x, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Free Spirit Publishing Inc., [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Start screen -- Your screen scene -- Gathering intel -- Protect your body : how screen time affects your body and health -- Protect your brain : how screen time can rewire and mess up your brain -- Protect your relationships : how screen time affects your social skills, relationships, and "street smarts" -- Protect your privacy, safety, and reputation: how big tech steals your data and puts you at risk -- Protect your psyche : how social media can crush your heart, seize your soul, and hack your identity -- Protect your psyche : how social media can crush your heart, seize your soul, and hack your identity -- Protect your life balance : how big tech hijacks your attention, your autonomy, and your time -- Life in the fast lane -- Give yourself an app-endectomy -- Great things you can do online (and off!). |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 11. Free Spirit Publishing Inc. |
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| Genre: | Juvenile works. |
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- 8 of 8 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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| Kendallville PL - Kendallville Main Branch | TEEN COMPUTER ONLINE SAFETY (Text) | 37516002072687 | TeenNF Computer | Available | - |
| Newburgh Chandler PL - Bell Road Library | TEEN 004.67 PACKER (Text) | 39206021762909 | Teen Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| Plainfield-Guilford Twp PL - Plainfield | T 004.6780 Packer (Text) | 31208913275337 | teen | Available | - |
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