Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning provides an important look at how smartphones, touchscreens, ebooks, and other new technologies have changed family life. This collection of news stories and interviews with digital media experts covers privacy and digital footprints, how involved parents should be in their teens’ digital lives, and what possibilities new digital tools offer for interest-driven learning – including how to teach kids to become meaningful producers and not just consumers of digital media.
“Family & Digital Media” also reflects on research and position papers produced by such groups as the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media, and Common Sense Media, and includes interviews with experts who are helping parents and other caregivers make smart decisions about what media a child should use at home, and how to make the most of a child’s early learning experiences.
