Relevant and interesting research about media, parenting, education and kids
16
Jan
“The motivation of adolescents is a critical issue – it is, in fact, a problem that must be solved.” (Anderman & Maehr, 1994) “They agreed that computers had, so far, made surprisingly little impact on schools – far less than in other realms of society such as media and medicine and law. For that to [...]
Tags: 21st century learning, family, Parenting advice on the Internet, Self reguation, technology
9
Aug
A teenager had recently run up a cellphone bill of more than $20,000 in California. While the bill amount received a lot of attention, many might have missed the trend it points to. Technological, or more specifically gadget revolution has changed our lives significantly. While the benefits of gadgets are well documented and probably do [...]
Tags: kids, media, research, technology
28
Jun
The Supreme Court finally came to a decision about the sale of violent video games to children and despite the hundreds and hundreds of studies linking violence on TV and in video games to aggressive behavior, they decided that “governments don’t have the right to restrict the ideas that children are exposed to.” OK, in [...]
Tags: children, family, kids, media, protecting children in the 21st century, technology, video games, violence
7
Jun
Phones are being used by teens for sexual exploration via the exchange of sexually suggestive content (sexting). Sexting includes explicit text, and nude or semi-nude personal pictures or videos captured on a cell phone or digital camera and sent via personal texts, emails, and instant messages. (Uhls et al, 2011). Pew research in 2009 [...]
Tags: children, education, Expel, family, kids, Parenting, protecting children in the 21st century, Senator Liu, Sexting, technology, Weiner
20
May
Almost every day I read some article about how digital media is changing the brain of our children, usually with a negative connotation. Often these articles refer to “studies” that describe what new digital technologies are doing to our children’s brain. No less than the executive editor of the NY Times weighed in, referring to [...]
Tags: brain, children, digital media, mutitasking, technology