Are our children “The App Generation?” With Professor Katie Davis

No Silly Questions- An Education Podcast for Parents

Or are they “Technology’s Child?”
These are the titles of our guest this week, Professor Katie Davis’ two books.
In this episode, we talk all about “ digital media’s role in the ages and stages of growing up.” How do children engage with technology at each stage of development? Are there good apps and bad apps? Youtube vs. Netflix? Does technology have an impact on creativity? Katie Davis gives us an inside look, from the front lines of academia and research, into the interplay of technology and child development.
More on Katie:
Katie Davis is Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School, Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Education, and a founding member and Co-Director of the Digital Youth Lab. Currently, she is a visiting research scientist in the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany. In her research, Katie investigates the impact of digital technologies on young people’s learning, development, and wellbeing, and co-designs positive technology experiences with and for youth. Her work bridges the fields of human development, human-computer interaction, and the learning sciences.
Katie holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate in Human Development and Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to joining the faculty at the UW iSchool, she worked with Howard Gardner and colleagues as a Project Manager at Harvard Project Zero, where she was a member of the GoodPlay Project and Developing Minds and Digital Media Project research teams. Katie is the author of several journal and conference publications, three books, with the forthcoming title “Technology’s Child”, and regularly shares her work with parents, teachers, business leaders, and policymakers in an effort to build connections between research and practice.
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