{"id":8472,"date":"2018-05-15T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:56","slug":"will-alexa-ruin-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/15\/will-alexa-ruin-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Alexa ruin your kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8622\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8622\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8622\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon Echo Dot\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Amazon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google and Amazon both recently announced that their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/hey-alexa-what-are-you-doing-to-my-kids-brain\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">voice assistants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will respond to requests that end in \u201cplease.\u201d Parents are worried that because their children are commanding information from these devices, they are not learning manners. To counter this anxiety, Google\u2019s Assistant will now have a \u201cPretty Please\u201d feature reminding kids to \u201csay the magic word\u201d before responding. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But many psychologists think kids being polite to virtual assistants is less of an issue than parents think\u2014and may even be a red herring. &#8220;Of course parents worry about these devices reinforcing negative behaviors, whether it&#8217;s being sassy or teasing a virtual assistant,\u201d says <strong>Jenny Radesky<\/strong>, a developmental behavioral pediatrician at U-M and co-author of the latest guidelines for media use from the American Academy of Pediatrics. \u201cBut I think there are bigger questions surrounding things like kids\u2019 cognitive development\u2014the way they consume information and build knowledge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Amazon both recently announced that their voice assistants will respond to requests that end in \u201cplease.\u201d Parents are worried that because their children are commanding information from these devices, they are not learning manners. To counter this anxiety, Google\u2019s Assistant will now have a \u201cPretty Please\u201d feature reminding kids to \u201csay the magic word\u201d before responding.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/15\/will-alexa-ruin-your-kids\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":8622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1527206400","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/hey-alexa-what-are-you-doing-to-my-kids-brain\/","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"150","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-8472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-hardware"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-768x640.jpg",665,554,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-700x583.jpg",600,500,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432-600x300.jpg",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-665x554.jpg",665,554,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Echo-Dot-black-and-white-e1527686159432.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Samantha DeRosia, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/srderosi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Google and Amazon both recently announced that their voice assistants will respond to requests that end in \u201cplease.\u201d Parents are worried that because their children are commanding information from these devices, they are not learning manners. To counter this anxiety, Google\u2019s Assistant will now have a \u201cPretty Please\u201d feature reminding kids to \u201csay the magic&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8625,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions\/8625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}