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Inviting Discussion About Safer Tech Use in Schools

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The situation: Lithium ion batteries are used in laptops, smart phones, e-cigarettes, "smart" meters and many other electronic devices. They are light and store lots of energy per weight. They can also explode; they are also flammabsure for health or property damages caused by wireless radiation.[81]

Activities:
* Teach staff and students to measure electric, magnetic and radiofrequency fields and "dirty" power emitted by their own devices. Www.magneticsciences.com rents meters for reasonable fees.
* When introducing students to an electronic device, encourage them to read and abide by the manufacturer's warnings in the product's manual.
* View "Broadcast Blues," a documentary about the Golden, Colorado area's health and legal battles in the late 90s around radio and TV broadcasting antennas placed on Lookout Mountain.[82]
* View "Blood in the Mobile," a Danish documentary about coltan, a mineral mined primarily in Congo that holds charge in every mobile device. More people have been murdered over coltan than were murdered in any other event since WWII.[83]
* View "We the People 2.0," Matthew Schmid's documentary about municipalities like Pittsburgh enacting ordinances that effectively prevent fracking or toxic sludge in their areas.[84] Could such a community rights ordinance work with cellular antenna placement?
* Invite discussion: Given that federal and manufacturers' guidelines regarding EMR emissions do not recognize non-thermal, biological harm, and some people want to reduce exposure, what regulations can individuals, households, schools and/or businesses reasonably create? What regulations should they create? Could you create model guidelines for a household or school?

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ENDNOTES

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Further Resources

Erica Mallery-Blythe, MD's talk, "Children, Radiation and Health." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNFdZVeXw7M

Hugh Taylor, MD, head of Yale Medical School's ob/gyn dept., warns pregnant women to avoid cell phones and Wi-Fi. http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/primers/wi-fi-schools/baby-safe-project/

Child psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley offers a four-week electronic fast for children to end meltdowns, raise grades and boost social skills to reverse the effects of Screen Syndrome. www.resetyourchildsbrain.com

Dr. Dunckley writes about screen-time's negative effects on children with autism: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-wealth/201612/autism-and-screen-time-special-brains-special-risks

Martha Herbert, MD, PhD and Cindy Sage, MA. "Autism and EMF? Plausibility of a pathophysiological link--parts 1 and 2," Pathophysiology 2013. http://www.marthaherbert.org/library/Herbert-Sage-2013-Autism-EMF-PlausibilityPathophysiologicalLink-Part11.pdf

http://www.marthaherbert.org/library/Herbert-Sage-2013-Autism-EMF-PlausibilityPathophysiologicalLink-Part21.pdf

Blake Levitt, ed., Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience? Or Environmental Hazard? Proceedings of the "Cell Towers Forum" State of the Science/State of the Law, New Century Publishing, 2000.

Dr. Roxana Marachi's letters to the California State Board of Education regarding concerns about the Smarter Balanced Assessments administered to over 10 million students in 18 states in Spring, 2015 document the numerous technological barriers, design flaws and contract breaches in the development of computerized assessments now pushed by the U.S. Dept. of Education. https://eduresearcher.com/2015/09/08/openletter/

Dr. Marachi also posts updates about screen-time and radiation exposure. www.eduresearcher.com

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