{"id":11769,"date":"2025-09-20T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11769"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:03:52","slug":"unplugged-canada-delaying-smart-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/20\/unplugged-canada-delaying-smart-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplugged Canada &#8211; Delaying Smart Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-unplugged-canada wp-block-embed-unplugged-canada\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qcdeWvWe3o\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unpluggedcanada.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; Unplugged Canada\" src=\"https:\/\/unpluggedcanada.com\/embed\/#?secret=PvKAeAnuP5#?secret=qcdeWvWe3o\" data-secret=\"qcdeWvWe3o\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">In my school district there is a growing movement called &#8220;Unplugged Canada&#8221;, calling for the delay of smartphones until the age of 14 (at the earliest). Their website features resources, information and a pledge for families\/schools to sign. As a grade 7 teacher, I notice the significant impacts that smartphones have on my students. The biggest concern being social media, which can lead to bullying, communication with predators, and access to content not developmentally appropriate for their age. What do you feel is an appropriate age to let a child have a smartphone? Are flip phones or dumb phones a good alternative?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my school district there is a growing movement called &#8220;Unplugged Canada&#8221;, calling for the delay of smartphones until the age of 14 (at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/20\/unplugged-canada-delaying-smart-phones\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unplugged Canada &#8211; Delaying Smart Phones<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":102528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileculture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11770,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769\/revisions\/11770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}