TED Talk - Sherry Turkle - Connected, But Alone
Opening Your Time Together
In your small group, please discuss the following:
Watching the TED Talk
Discussing the TED Talk
In your small group, please discuss the following:
- Share your names, where you live, and your children’s ages
- Our TED talk today covers the rapidly expanding role that technology has in all of our relationships, both with kids and adults. How has your family experienced this? Do you see it as a positive, negative, or neutral thing?
- How much time do you and your kids spend in front of screens today compared to five years ago?
Watching the TED Talk
Discussing the TED Talk
- This talk was given in 2012(!) and, if anything, we are even more connected today then before… what aspects of this talk still resonate for you today?
- Turkle posits that we are “lonely, but afraid of intimacy” and that we value being able to control how we present ourselves… in what ways does a lack of vulnerability prevent connections with other people? How might we use our devices/digital lives in a more fulfilling way?
- What role could church play in reestablishing a sense of face-to-face connection and community in our world?