The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch
Week 6: Chapter 5 — Who's the Teacher?
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Every device in our home is, in some sense, a teacher — and Crouch asks us to consider whether we have handed the primary formation of our children to algorithms and content creators without realizing it.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Crouch argues that devices are not neutral conduits of information — they are active shapers of desire, attention, and identity. In what specific ways have you noticed a device "teaching" you or your children something you did not choose to learn?
2.He raises the question of who the primary teachers in a child's life ought to be — parents, community, church, Scripture — and how technology has quietly displaced many of them. Do you think parents today are aware of how much formative authority they have ceded? Why or why not?
3.Crouch discusses the particular vulnerability of adolescence — a stage of life when identity is being formed and young people are highly susceptible to the values modeled by whoever (or whatever) has their attention. How does social media function as a kind of peer group on steroids during those years?
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