EDITOR’S NOTE - Sandy Steele
Ahem, may I have your attention, please? We have just eight seconds to grab someone’s attention before other distractions take over. In today’s world, one of those distractions is most often a cell phone! I’m sure you’ve experienced the cell phone frustration with your own students, but unfortunately we’re not just talking about kids. According to new research, adults check their phone an average of once every 12 minutes – burying our heads in our phones 80 times a day. A study by the global tech company Asurion found that “the average person struggles to go little more than 10 minutes without checking their phone,” and this includes during one-on-one conversations and meals.
But is this constant companion – our connection to the world – changing how we actually think and how we feel? The Asurion study suggests our “smart” devices have not only limited our attention, but equally our ability to listen, to read at length, and to participate in dialogue. The survey found that separation anxiety is also real. In fact, “31 percent feel regular anxiety at any point when separated from their phone and 60 percent reported experiencing stress when their phone was off or out of reach.”
Time to recharge... you, not your phone. This issue of the journal is about Bringing Music to Life. So put down your phone, get comfortable with your computer or tablet (yes, reading on a larger format is better for you), and begin the process of enjoying a breadth of informative and entertaining articles, messages, and perspectives. You can’t walk away from technology in this life as we know it, but you can take a break from all the “little” distraction of the phone and just ... have a good read!
[(2018) Are You Addicted to Your Phone? Asurion Consumer Tech Dependency Survey. Asurion Reasearch, Nashville, TN.]
Editors Note: Special thanks to my proof-readers, Debbie Rose and Pam Schweigert, for their incredible expertise in finding all those little hidden (or not so hidden) errors that I seem to read past with ease. Without them, you’d see every misplaced comma, misspelled word, upper case and lower case reversals, missing letters, reference errors . . . well, you get the picture. Good proof-reading is tedious, time consuming, and requires a talent I don’t have! I’m grateful and humbled by their ability.
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