Early Childhood
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The Age of Automation Demands that Students Learn Soft Skills
It’s a hard number to comprehend: 800 million jobs could be lost to automation in the next decade. While some doubt that the number ... -
How to Implement a Successful STEAM Program
By Dr. Azi Jamalian, head of education strategy at littleBits According to the Department of Labor, more than 65 percent of today’s students will ... -
Why Should Your Child Learn to Code? Here’s Why
I have been championing coding as the language of the future for quite some time now. Surprisingly, many people believe that the idea is ... -
Reading with your children: proper books vs tablets
Nicola Yuill, University of Sussex Most of us have an opinion about whether we prefer reading on screen or paper: but what difference does ... -
How Games Can Hook Students With Short Attention Spans
Craig Blewett, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Ebrahim Adam, University of KwaZulu-Natal Modern human beings have a shorter attention span than goldfish: ours is, on ... -
How Should We Teach Our Kids to Use Digital Media?
Jenny Radesky, University of Michigan Any time a new technology is introduced, it disrupts values, routines and behaviors. This goes back well before the ... -
Tablets at the Table Can Influence Child Development, Not Always in a Good Way
Joanne Orlando, Western Sydney University Do you “i-Pad your child” when you go to a restaurant? I couldn’t help but notice the one-year-old at ... -
Parents express concerns as more toddlers switch on tablet computers
Natalia Kucirkova, Manchester Metropolitan University Most parents have profound concerns about their children reading digital books on tablets. In a new survey of 1,500 ... -
Why It’s Wrong for Pediatricians to Eliminate Daily Screen Time Recommendations
Brigitte Vittrup, Texas Woman’s University This month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced a disappointing decision. Sixteen years after they published their formal ... -
Two-Hour Screen Limit for Kids is Virtually Impossible to Enforce
Andrew Plumb/Flickr, CC BY-NC-S Michael Rosenberg, University of Western Australia; Simon Hunter, Strathclyde University, and Stephen Houghton, University of Western Australia It’s almost universally ...
