Chapter 1How We're Wired Now
The beauty and tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment to collective good.
—Sebastian Junger
In the introduction, we laid out three major challenges facing our students and schools: our need for belonging in an age of individualism, the smart-phone induced mental health crisis, and a broader lack of trust in institutions. Those arguments will inform the solutions we outline in the rest of this book. In this chapter, we'll explain the challenges they pose in greater depth and begin to explore some ways schools can use an understanding of them to rewire the ways they design interactions with students and even with their families.
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