{"id":2047,"date":"2019-05-20T13:58:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2019-05-20T15:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:39:04","slug":"bates-education-expert-talks-about-screen-time-with-diane-sawyer-for-tv-special-sun-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/2019\/05\/20\/bates-education-expert-talks-about-screen-time-with-diane-sawyer-for-tv-special-sun-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates education expert talks about \u2018screen time\u2019 with Diane Sawyer for TV special \u2014 Sun Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Charles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bates education expert talks about \u2018screen time\u2019 with Diane Sawyer for TV special \u2014\u00a0<em>Sun Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A two-hour ABC News special looking at Americans\u2019 relationships with screens included an interview with Lecturer in Education Anita Charles, who has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/23\/why-banning-cellphones-in-schools-misses-the-point\/\">studied the effects of cellphones on classrooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The special,\u00a0<em>ScreenTime<\/em>, aired May 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/05\/180322_Anita_Charles_Class_0007-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/05\/180322_Anita_Charles_Class_0007-2-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/05\/180322_Anita_Charles_Class_0007-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/05\/180322_Anita_Charles_Class_0007-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/05\/180322_Anita_Charles_Class_0007-2-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/05\/180322_Anita_Charles_Class_0007-2-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/files\/2019\/05\/180322_Anita_Charles_Class_0007-2.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Lewiston\u00a0<em>Sun Journal<\/em>\u00a0about the interview, Charles said, \u201cWe need to just be mindful and aware. We are trying to figure out things together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more important than setting hard limits on screen time is that parents, schools, and communities provide a sense of balance and listen to their kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Charles says we know American kids are very resilient,\u201d Diane Sawyer narrated. \u201cIt\u2019s possible they\u2019ll teach us about balancing life in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the\u00a0<em>Sun Journal<\/em>report: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/05\/02\/bates-education-expert-talks-about-screen-time-with-diane-sawyer-for-tv-special\/\">Bates education expert talks about \u2018screen time\u2019 with Diane Sawyer for TV special,\u201d May 2, 2019\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Charles Bates education expert talks about \u2018screen time\u2019 with Diane Sawyer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1113,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2048,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}