Ask any parent or caregiver today – it’s not easy to get a child or teen hyper-focused on their device or game to put it down. What are hours spent per day on digital media doing to attention spans, multitasking skills, and cognitive functions such as memory? How are platforms designed to maximize children’s time online for advertising revenue affecting the ways children are thinking about and interacting with the “real” world around them?
Children and Screens hosted the #AskTheExperts webinar “Driven to Distraction: Media Use, Attention, and Cognition” on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Nicholas Carr and other expert panelists discussed recent and developing research into the complexities of focus, attention, cognitive development and more.
Speakers
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Nicholas Carr
Author, JournalistModerator
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Susanne Baumgartner, PhD
Associate Professor, Amsterdam School of Communication Research
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Taína Coleman, MA, MEd
Educational Specialist, Learning and Development Center, Child Mind Institute
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Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD
Associate Professor, Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Tracy Markle, MA, LPC
Founder & Director, Digital Media Treatment & Education Center, Collegiate Coaching Services
