Kate Highfield consults for ABC Kids, with a focus on supporting healthy technology use in play and learning. With colleagues, she receives or has received funding from the Australian Research Council ...

Assistive technology—from visual timers to help students with learning differences keep track of their schedules to digital captioning software for those with hearing difficulties—can improve outcomes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children and teens are using technology earlier and more often than they ever have, and research from 2024 ...

Special episodes with ASL interpretation from Fred Rogers Productions streamed 8.5 million times on the PBS Kids app from July to October. (Chris Smith/TheWrap) “I went into television because I hated ...

Among school-age members of Generation Alpha, the successor to Gen Z, nearly half are using AI tools already, with boys and older kids leading the pack. According to a recent online survey of 500 ...

A family sits in a crowded restaurant, and one of the parents hands their toddler a phone to play a game as the little one settles into a high chair. Mornings are a blur, so while mom takes a shower ...

If you’re a fellow member of Generation Z, you’re all too familiar with this scenario: going out to a restaurant or a public setting to see a young child with their often-Millennial parents seeming ...

(São Paulo, Brazil) – The personal photos of Brazilian children are being used to create powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools without the children’s knowledge or consent, Human Rights Watch ...

Rob Archer is a psychologist and father of two based in London. He doesn't plan on giving his children smartphones until they leave home. Archer is part of a nationwide parents pact that aims to delay ...

In a world saturated with technology, with connection a click away, we may well wonder: Why are so many adults and kids feeling anxious, withdrawn, or depressed? As Jonathan Haidt argues in his ...