— Brian X .Chen The Touch-Screen Generation Theatlantic.com | What are touch screens and technology doing to children's brains?
That's a distinction "Touch-Screen Generation" doesn't make much of, but it's an important one.
Ms. Rosin (who is a former colleague and friend) argues that children of the "touch-screen generation" are something different.
"You've caught me at the perfect time," she said when I called her to talk about "Touch-Screen Generation".
In Hanna Rosin's recent Atlantic cover story, "The Touch-Screen Generation," she describes the iPad as functioning "like a tea table without legs".
The iPads in the classrooms in Zurich, Ms. Guernsey said, aren't being used for the kind of education or entertainment "Touch-Screen Generation" is focused on.
But "Touch-Screen Generation" misses all the other ways this powerful tool can be used, and without some supervision and guidance, children might miss them as well.
At 11, 8, 7 and 7, my children aren't the "Touch-Screen Generation" that Hanna Rosin writes about in The Atlantic.
Now, 13 new films swell that section, with others including Michael Winterbottom's Genova, Steve McQueen's Hunger, Richard Eyre's The Other Man and Terence Davies's Of Time and the City So, can it be true that, after years of stops, starts and stutters, we are experiencing the flourishing of a new screen generation?
"Touch Screen Generation" is an exploration of the world of iPads, apps and very young children that goes from the app developers into the research behind the apps and back again, pausing along the way for multiple considerations of the ways parents (even, amusingly, the app developers themselves) fear the devices' effect on their children.
