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Impacts of biowearables on children
January 18, 2022By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Researchers at SFU’s Tangible Embodied Child-Computer Interaction Lab (TECI) are concerned with the ethical effects of biowearables on children. Biowearables refer to apps or wearable devices that track data from the body, such as Fitbit watches. TECI researchers are strongly urging parents to have conversations with their children about using this technology. The Peak spoke to postdoctoral researcher Dr. Alexandra Kitson, who works in the TECI lab alongside Dr. Alissa Antle. While there is significant research on data privacy with technology like biowearables, Kitson noted a gap in the research surrounding how they made people feel.…
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SFU report calls for a budget plan to prioritize children’s mental health due to COVID-19 struggles
January 21, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer SFU professor and Director of the Children’s Health Policy Centre, Charlotte Waddell, led a study on COVID-19 and its impact on the mental health of children aged 0–18. The research report, published in September…
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SFU summer camps: are you for or against all these children on campus?
June 23, 2019By: Paul Choptuik, Coordinating News Editor, Onosholema Ogoigbe, News Team Member Point: One of the biggest complaints I hear from classmates is that they don’t pay to have summer campers clogging hallways, screaming, and otherwise being bothersome. I’m not saying that…
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SFU opens its doors for national science fair
May 20, 2018By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate School was in session on Saturday last week when SFU opened its doors to the public as part of its participation in Science Rendezvous, one of Canada’s biggest science fairs. Science Rendezvous began in…
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Children need more than an app to learn about sex
June 22, 2015A new app called “Clementine Wants to Know” is being marketed towards parents as an aid to help teach their children about sex. At first, this seems like a great idea. The sooner kids know about sex the sooner the…
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Jamie Oliver, leave a child’s diet alone
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2043" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] This Christmas I sat down, flipped on my TV, and engulfed myself in the guilty delights of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Comfort Food series. As a trickle of drool anointed my…
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Students dance for change at annual fundraiser
January 31, 2015The second annual SFU Dance Marathon kicked off on Saturday, January 24, featuring 12 hours of nonstop energy, infectious songs, and, of course, a whole lot of dancing. SFU is the first university in Canada to hold a Dance Marathon,…
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Don’t spank your children
September 29, 2014Were you spanked as a child? In hindsight, do you feel resentment or even humiliation at being treated this way? The answer is likely yes. For these reasons, I am against spanking children. Spanking one’s children should not be used…
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