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    Android Moronic Monday (Feb 24 2020) - Your weekly questions thread!

    February 24, 2020

    Android Moronic Monday (Feb 24 2020) - Your weekly questions thread!

    Moronic Monday (Feb 24 2020) - Your weekly questions thread!

    Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:16 AM PST

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    Getting Started With Android 11

    Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:41 AM PST

    Family Link is wonderful, but could be improved

    Posted: 23 Feb 2020 04:34 PM PST

    Anything in life can be a double edged sword. Everyone knows the example of an airplane that can be used for transport or to drop bombs. But it's not just limited to technology. When I was both middle school and high school I used books to facilitate my escapist behavior. I could read a full length, fictional novel in the span of 24 hours and repeat ad nauseum in my escapist efforts. While other parents would have been glad if they could have gotten their kids to read a single book a semester, my parents were begging me to stop and to focus on my school work.

    My first idea is for parents to be able to group or categorize and control apps on our kids' phones from the family link app. This is already sort of done in that the app will suggest educational apps, but we have no control over these once they are installed on the device. Being able to group them, and then better control them would allow us to focus in on when we want to use these devices as educational tools. Admittedly these devices have great educational potential, but it is largely wasted as kids can quickly back out of an app and proceed to another. But by having siloed off each app group, a parent could without blocking off access to the entire phone simply redirect our kids to the educational apps. Groups could be "entertainment", "games", "educational", "utility", etc. In this idea, we could make for instance the educational group of apps solely available for the next hour.

    Next, with the advent of smartphones and other mobile devices, everyone acknowledges how addictive they can become, yet kids have access to the devices earlier and earlier. Truthfully though, these devices are no dangerous than any other form of entertainment or activity. It's merely the behaviors that can become associated with these devices that can become problematic. You already have measures in play such as "Bedtimes" to mitigate such outcomes, but I believe more could be done.

    This idea is all about fine tuning where time is spent a bit more autonomously. Already the ability to impose time limits for each app provide some amount of granular control, but it is not desirable to implement for the most part. It is simple to, for example, limit the app Roblux to two or three hours for a day on the weekend, but there is nothing preventing your kid from rushing through that whole time frame before lunch time. You could say that is a good teaching implement to have a kid learn self control and meter his or her own use of the app, and I'd agree, but that's only at a certain age. Younger children who barely have a concept of time at all certainly are not capable of this. Nor does it do anything from having them hop to the next entertainment/game app since there are no groups. So until a certain age, which varies from kid to kid, instead of a blunt time limit I think a metering method in addition to the app groups would be more useful. Say once a continuous hour of entertainment or game grouped apps was spent, all apps of the entertainment and game type would be unavailable for an hour. Or perhaps even two. So you would have a ratio of for so many X minutes of downtime, Y minutes of play time would become available and constantly balancing against each other. This would be a far more desirable way of controlling entertainment usage or screen time as a whole than having a simple hard limit per app for younger children. Then as they get older and understand the flow of time better, switch over and implement the hard limit so they can choose for themselves whether to spend their daily allowance all at once or rather spread out. I believe this would go a long way towards mitigating the bad habits that can develop so early.

    As always, thank you Google for the time and effort you put into your services! They are appreciated by parents such as myself and I know others who are striving to raise our children to be independent and successful.

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