App shows promise connecting kids with the outdoors
Thursday, December 27, 2018
As Joshua Lawler studies how plants and animals respond to big changes in the environment, something on a more personal level weighs on him. People, particularly children, are spending less time outside. If kids don鈥檛 make a connection with nature, the next generation won鈥檛 have as much interest in caring for nature. Smartphones and Xbox controllers have become attached to more and more children鈥檚 hands. Yet if we want them to become faithful stewards of the natural world, we鈥檙e going to need kids to look up from their screens. Lawler, a professor in the University of W