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Learn to Use Computers and the Internet
NPL Digital Learn offers video courses that show you how to use computers and the Internet. Each course consists of several short videos (5–25 min), activities, and handouts.
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Do you feel helpless in the face of your children's excessive internet use? Have you noticed changes in their behavior that concern you?
What if I told you there's a solution that can help you understand and address the issue?
"Internet Addiction in Children" is your guide to unraveling the dynamics of digital dependence and safeguarding the mental and physical health of your loved ones.
Discover what makes the online world so appealing to today's...
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A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestseller
"Newport is making a bid to be the Marie Kondo of technology: someone with an actual plan for helping you realize the digital pursuits that do, and don't, bring value to your life."—Ezra Klein, Vox
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living...
"Newport is making a bid to be the Marie Kondo of technology: someone with an actual plan for helping you realize the digital pursuits that do, and don't, bring value to your life."—Ezra Klein, Vox
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living...
3) Gaming Addiction: Online Addiction: Internet Addiction: How To Overcome Video Game, Internet, And
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Are you addicted to playing digital games?
Whether you want to (1) reclaim your life, (2) help a friend who is addicted to gaming, or (3) just understand the dangers of online gaming, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know.
Every addiction has its consequences.
There are negative consequences to a gaming addiction. This audiobook will help you fully comprehend the dangers and learn how to help yourself or others break out of...
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"Award-winning journalist Catherine Price presents a practical, hands-on plan to break up -- and then make up -- with your phone. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good. You'll discover how phones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them damages our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories. You'll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will...
5) Jexi
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Phil has a major dependency issue, he's addicted to his phone. He has no friends, he has a job writing pop culture 'top ten' lists, and his love life is non-existent. But his Facebook status is about to change. When he is forced to upgrade his phone, the latest model comes with an unexpected feature, an A.I. life coach. With her help, Phil begins to get a real life. But as he becomes less dependent on his phone, the A.I. morphs into a tech nightmare...
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"From a leading technology reporter comes the first self-help book to address America's newest addiction. Anxiety about the red blinking light on your Blackberry? The impulse to google the answer to every question? The urge to text while driving? The need to tweet every observation? We all know someone who needs a digital diet. Technology has overwhelmed our daily lives to the point of constant distraction and many of us can no longer focus on a single...
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Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. This new self, which Aboujaoude dubs our "e-personality," manifests itself in every curt...
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Features insights from media experts, as well as personal stories from individuals and families who have escaped media addiction and learned to make discerning and God-honoring choices about their use of media technology. The feature-length documentary is not anti-media or anti-technology, but raises critical concerns about culture's seemingly unchecked enthusiasm for media consumption.
13) Status
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"Tyesha Fenty is a beautiful 22-year-old mother of one very precocious little girl--and an unashamed internet addict. Between taking care of her daughter and posting updates about her life via the Web, Tyesha stresses over love and family. The father of her child is a spiritually devout drug dealer named Rodrick Al-Bashir who has a thing for other women. And her mother, Velma Fenty, is a widowed hoarder on the verge of losing her house. Stalking is...
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The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in an age that feels busier and more distracting by the day? We have all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended. Mobile devices and the web have invaded our lives, and this is a big idea book that addresses one of the biggest questions of our age: can we...
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"The network and cable television personality shares her personal journey through the tumult of technology, in which she experiences the horrors and dangers of our smart-phone, social media, tech-polluted world, explores the reasons behind it, and reveals her ideas for reclaiming a real life in these virtual times. In this entertaining and inspiring book, Jedediah Bila chronicles her confusing, chaotic, and ultimately catastrophic love-hate relationship...
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"Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to connect around the world? Or the first step in creating a generation of addled screen zombies? Many have been quick to declare this the dawn of a neurological and emotional crisis, but solid science on the subject is surprisingly hard to come...
18) Digital nation
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Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained? This in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world continues a line...
20) Web Junkie
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The Chinese government is the first to classify internet addiction as a clinical disorder. WEB JUNKIE identifies internet addiction and focuses on the treatment used in Chinese rehabilitation centers. Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival.** *"...the human stories...are instantly identifiable, stories of a world where everyone has been brought closer together and simultaneously kept apart."...
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