Parents and care-givers often provide the first line of defense when it comes to developing healthy skills and practices when it comes to use of digital tools and online spaces. The challenge is that there are always new...
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A podcast about living and learning in the age of screentime. Welcome to Episode #3 – Being Mindful Moments from our lives: Kristen shares a story about a morning filled with stress – because her daughter...
As I spend more time thinking about screentime, I’ve been thinking a lot about balance in our lives. More specifically, I’ve been defining screentime in the context of my life, and the lives of the individuals in my...
As we use digital texts and tools, we click through the consent documents to get the app, platform, or tool running. Most times we don’t take the time to think through what the consent documents are requesting. The...
Given the differences I discovered between the ways in which words are used in the body of research, practice, and press around children, screens, and media (Paciga & Donohue, 2017), I was thrilled to see an email in my box...
A podcast about living and learning in the age of screentime. Welcome to Episode #2 – To share or not to share. Moments from our lives: A recent “ten year” meme has Kristen and Ian asking questions about sharing...
As we look around society, we see screens and digital devices everywhere. Chances are, we need to look up from our own devices to see others as they use devices. There is little debate about the ubiquitous presence of screens and...
Katie Paciga is a parent, educator, and Literacy researcher. She presented at a recent session on screentime at the 2018 meeting of the Literacy Research Association in Palm Springs, California. The paper for her...
A new paper by Amy Orben and Andrew Przybylski in Nature examines the widespread speculation around the connections between the use of digital tech by adolescents, and psychological well-being. The authors indicate that the...
A podcast about living and learning in the age of screentime. Welcome to Episode #1 – What is Technopanic? Moments from our lives Kristen shares how her son hijacked fantasy football – and how 10 days without...