For many families, finding tech devices for kids that balance entertainment, creativity, and education remains an ongoing challenge. Most children's devices fall into one of two categories: ...
Screen time has long been a hot topic for parents. Many think that parenting has gotten harder over the years, with technology being a key reason why. Between the rise of AI, the staying power of ...
Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how parents of kids ages 12 and younger approach their children’s technology use and screen time. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,054 parents ...
This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Julia Wise, a mother of three in Boston, published an essay last February that articulated a new kind of parenting ...
Education technology—including school districts’ 1-to-1 computing initiatives—impedes students’ ability to learn and offers a portal to platforms that harm children’s mental health, experts told ...
Last week, I picked up two of my kids from school and asked about their day, like I always do. “We spent almost an entire class period trying to log into Canvas!” one of them bemoaned. Ah yes, Canvas ...
Big Tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that ...
When parents feel like they’ve lost control of their children’s tech usage, they can call up Daniel Towle. A professional screen-time coach who works with families one-on-one, the 36-year-old says ...
Students in Windy Kelley’s fifth grade classroom at Union Elementary School in Montpelier work on computers. File photo by Roger Crowley/for VTDigger Blake Fabrikant is the dean of students at Sharon ...
At the Utah Capitol last month, a mother told lawmakers her children struggled to stay focused on homework because their school-issued laptops supplied an endless stream of notifications from online ...