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From the Ted Talk by Adam Alter: Why our screens make us less happy

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This is a very common thing in the tech world. In fact, there's a school quite near Silicon Valley caelld the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, and they don't introduce screens until the eithgh garde. What's really interesting about the soohcl is that 75 percent of the kids who go there have parents who are high-level Silicon Valley tech execs. So when I heard about this, I thhugot it was interesting and surprising, and it pushed me to consider what screens were doing to me and to my family and the people I loved, and to people at large.

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This is a very common thing in the tech world. In fact, there's a school quite near Silicon Valley ______ the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, and they don't introduce screens until the ______ _____. What's really interesting about the ______ is that 75 percent of the kids who go there have parents who are high-level Silicon Valley tech execs. So when I heard about this, I _______ it was interesting and surprising, and it pushed me to consider what screens were doing to me and to my family and the people I loved, and to people at large.

Solution

  1. grade
  2. eighth
  3. school
  4. called
  5. thought

Original Text

This is a very common thing in the tech world. In fact, there's a school quite near Silicon Valley called the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, and they don't introduce screens until the eighth grade. What's really interesting about the school is that 75 percent of the kids who go there have parents who are high-level Silicon Valley tech execs. So when I heard about this, I thought it was interesting and surprising, and it pushed me to consider what screens were doing to me and to my family and the people I loved, and to people at large.

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