Resource Format: Video
Dr. Jenny Radesky, Dr. Roberta Golinkof

Safe, Secure, & Smart Tech for Preschoolers

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Academic Performance
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Social Development
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Sleep
Stress/Anxiety
Early Childhood
Education
Public Health
Public Service
English
Created: 6/8/2021
Uploaded: 01/15/2021

Apps and online videos are among the most popular tech for children, yet most of those platforms consistently lack high quality, safe content for preschoolers. With so much inappropriate content easily at their fingertips, it can be hard to know what to look for and what options are available for keeping children safe and meeting their learning needs. In this Action Network Live! event, pediatrician Jenny Radesky, MD, and child development expert Roberta Golinkoff, PhD, discuss how children learn (or don’t!) from popular technology and the elements of tech that do (or don’t!) support children’s development and safety.

About the speakers

Jenny Radesky, MD, is a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her NIH-funded research focuses on the use of mobile and interactive technology by parents and young children.  She was the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statements Media and Young Minds in 2016 and Digital Advertising to Children in 2020.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, PhD, is the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education at the University of Delaware. She studies language development, the benefits of play, children’s spatial learning, and the effects of media on children. Her last book, Becoming Brilliant, reached the New York Times best-seller list.

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