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Speaker 1: Searchers have come up with advice on children's screen use

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Speaker 1: in educational settings. So the lead author screen researcher at

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Speaker 1: Auckland University, a woman called Judy Cullen, says that while

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Speaker 1: moderate screen use can be beneficial for education, excessive use

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Speaker 1: linked to health issues. Guidelines suggests six to twelve year

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Speaker 1: old's screen use is recommended for no more than a

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Speaker 1: third of the school day now. Mark Phillips is the

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Speaker 1: principal of the Crimson Global Academy and is with us Mark,

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Speaker 1: very good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Good morning mine.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a settled view on what's good, what's not,

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Speaker 1: in what sort of age, etc.

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Speaker 2: We are a secondary school and most of our teaching

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Speaker 2: in our class teaching at least is from students from

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Speaker 2: the age of twelve through to eighteen. And it works well.

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Speaker 1: In terms of what works well. How much screen time

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Speaker 1: do you do?

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Speaker 2: Oh, probably an average student would do about four four

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Speaker 2: and a half hours per day.

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Speaker 1: And is it thought about, talked about, studied or I

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Speaker 1: worry that we angst about something? I mean, I spend

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Speaker 1: god knows how many hours on a screen because the

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Speaker 1: world is on a screen and I need to see

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Speaker 1: what's happening in the world, and it's sort of like

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Speaker 1: it is what it is.

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Speaker 2: I think the truth to that. What we try to

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Speaker 2: do is make sure our lessons are interactive, engaging, interesting,

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Speaker 2: We have breaks between lessons. We encourage our students to

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Speaker 2: be active members of their community, join sports clubs, do exercise,

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Speaker 2: passions for music and art and things like that. So

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Speaker 2: we really encourage regular community engagement.

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Speaker 1: What is the concern as far as your concern, is

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Speaker 1: it the screen time I minutes noils or is it

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Speaker 1: what's actually been watched?

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Speaker 2: Personally? I think it's what the students actually do as

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Speaker 2: as much the quantity of time.

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Speaker 1: And do you change your thought process around age? Would

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Speaker 1: it worry you that are six year olds on X

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Speaker 1: number of ours versus an eighteen year old X number

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Speaker 1: of ours? Or it doesn't matter personally?

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Speaker 2: I think it does matter how old a student is, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And the younger the lesser and more for older.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree with that.

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Speaker 1: Do you set what do you think about patents? If

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Speaker 1: you set a pattern for a six year old, does

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Speaker 1: that pattern continue as an eighteen year old? Therefore it

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Speaker 1: continues to a forty two year old, or we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have a clue.

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Speaker 2: I think patterns and expectations that you develop as youngsters

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Speaker 2: do actually carry through to adult adulthood. Attitudes to studying,

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Speaker 2: the value of education, generally, participation in sports and whatever

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Speaker 2: it might be. Those habits are forming when students are young.

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Speaker 1: And what about the phones away the current government policy?

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Speaker 1: Did you have that in place or you got it

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Speaker 1: in place now? And does it work well?

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Speaker 2: Our students are all at home anyway, so you don't

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Speaker 2: know what.

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Speaker 1: They're doing because you're not. I should have explained I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry about that. That you're an online school. Aren't you a

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Speaker 1: global online school?

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Speaker 2: Yes? We are, yea, all our all our lessons.

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Speaker 1: Are online, so ironically you are. They would argue potentially

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Speaker 1: part of the problem, although you'd say, no, we're not.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we're part of the problem at all.

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Speaker 2: I think we're a strong solution for education because you.

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Speaker 1: Can get access to top quality talent, doesn't matter where

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Speaker 1: in the world you are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, access to high quality international qualifications if that's

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Speaker 2: what parents desire as well. So we're providing choice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff. Make appreciate it very much. Have a

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Speaker 1: good weekend. Mark Phillips principle of Crimson Global Academy Money.

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