This morning I listened to the BYU Devotional speech given by Patrick Kearon on February 14, 2012. He gave the following counsel: "Spending too much of our time with social media, celebrity or entertainment news, games, and the pursuit of online, time-hungry activities constitute a poor digital diet." He explained that as we consume the opinions and attitudes of the mass media, our viewpoints and values will conform to them—and that most of the time we don’t even realize it is happening. Therefore, he said, we have to be aware that the content we consume from the mass media may contain messages that cause us to “compromise our convictions, and view the world through cynical eyes.”
I feel this counsel is not only important for us as Esperanza educators to remember but we also want to teach our Esperanza scholars to be discerning in order to have a healthy digital diet.
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