by Caroline Isautier | May 24, 2022 | Digital Citizenship
We’re beginning here a repository of media articles on the impact on mental health of kids or teens using cell phones, notably to access social media and YouTube. Meet the parents who refuse to give kids cell phones: May 9, 2022 in The Washington Post For...
by Caroline Isautier | May 19, 2022 | Digital Citizenship, Featured
A study, published in Nature, May 11, 2022, seems to claim playing video games makes kids smart. The study looked at 9,855 children from the USA who took part in the ABCD study – a long-term study of brain development and health of children in the United States, aged...
by Caroline Isautier | Mar 16, 2022 | Education
As classes moved online during the Covid pandemic, many teachers moved to giving lectures online, through video conferencing, making “Zoom” a household name in 2021. However, teaching online is very different from delivering the same class given in person,...
by Caroline Isautier | Mar 10, 2022 | Digital Citizenship
Governments around the world are crafting or attempt to craft laws to protect children online. We look at online child protection legislation and proposed legislation in France, the UK, California, Canada, Australia and the US below since 2018. As we discuss in our...
by Caroline Isautier | Feb 10, 2022 | Education
In 2022, we have witnessed around the world increased use of social media, block buster video games and video sites. The impact on kids’ and teens’ mental health of excessive use of online entertainment that was designed with pushing for maximum time spent...
