Natalie Tan at the Dignity School in Kuala Lumpur explains to Nicholas Carlisle how young refugee children use their smartphones to stay in touch with their parents and protect each other from capture. She also talks about the impact of [...]
Sonia Livingstone talks about what she found in co-writing with Alicia Blum-Ross Parenting for a Digital Future which explores how parents imagine the future for their children, including the role of digital technology. Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology at LSE’s Department [...]
Nicholas Carlisle interviews Alexa Scher, a clinical psychologist based in Johannesburg. South Africa faces a stark digital divide, with only 56.2% of the population online (Internet World Stats, 2019). Most children value the Internet for learning purposes but rarely use [...]
Nicholas Carlisle interviews Isura Silva as part of our series on the online lives of young children across the world. Isura Silva is a strategic consultant for Sarvodaya Fusion, a unit of Sarvodaya movement, the oldest and largest charity non-profit [...]
Mayank Solanki and Deepthi Shiva work for Val-ed Initiatives in India, bringing programs to schools to raise peaceful, ethical and compassionate citizens. Nicholas Carlisle interviewed them to find out how technology is affecting young children in their home state of [...]
Last month the World Health Organization (WHO) published new guidelines for children under five. Their advice is this: cut screen time to an hour or less a day (none in the first year of life) and give your kid more [...]
It's hard to imagine, as you watch a line of young children walking down the street, hand in hand crocodile style, that bullying could ever occur in pre-school. The sad truth is that it does, with almost the same frequency [...]
Most families give their kids a smartphone or tablet before they can speak. Eight-four percent of children in the United States now have their own internet connected device by the time they are 8 and average two and a half [...]
