What if your family had more time, more connection and more of a chance to really pay attention to each other? The organizers of this weekend’s Slow Tech Festival know it’s possible, and they have suggestions that can help you make it happen.
PA Unplugged, a statewide coalition working to restore real-world connection by helping everyone prioritize people over technology, is collaborating with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to host this day-long, interactive event, happening Sunday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum.
PA Unplugged envisions a world where technology serves humanity. It’s a place where culture, behaviors and policy — not for-profit tech companies — set the standard for how we live and connect.
For the Slow Tech Festival, they are bringing together more than 50 organizations and vendors who will offer ideas, strategies and products to help families “slow tech your life.”
These include alternatives to smart phones that help delay the time when kids get started with smartphone, and other products that can take the place of a smartphone, like MP3 players and real cameras.
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Visitors at the festival will also find plenty of organizations sharing screen-free activities for kids throughout the museum, including The Frick Pittsburgh, Citizen Science Academy, the Andy Warhol Museum, pickleball groups and our Kidsburgh team.
All of this is included with the price of Children’s Museum admission.
“We are thrilled to partner with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh for the first of its kind ‘Slow Tech Festival,’” says KDKA-TV anchor and Kidsburgh contributor Kristine Sorensen, who will attend the event with her team from Lebo Unplugged, an affiliate of PA Unplugged that she co-founded.
“Families will leave this event with strategies to create sustainable behaviors and implement values in their home that promote healthy brain development for children,” Sorensen says.