Screens, Social Media, & The Future of Our Children:
A Conversation On Screen Time With NPR reporter Anya Kamenetz
On November 17th, NPR reporter Anya Kamenetz to discussed her new book The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life with Helen Lee Bouygues of the Reboot Foundation. Kamenetz offered real, panic-free advice on how we can balance family life and technology so our kids can learn better.
Revisit the conversation below!
Revisit the conversation below!
Speakers:
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Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent for NPR, where she also co-hosts the podcast Life Kit: Parenting. She speaks, writes, and thinks about learning and the future. Her latest book, now out in paperback, is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media And Real Life.
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Helen Lee Bouygues is the founder and CEO of the Reboot Foundation, a columnist at Forbes, and working on a book on critical thinking. She has served as interim CEO, CFO, or COO for more than a dozen companies.
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More on the Book:
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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life is the essential, don’t-panic, evidence-based guide and exploration of how to have a happy family life and raise healthy, successful kids in in the age of Babies With iPads and Moms On Their Phones At The Playground.
Kamenetz cuts through the rumor, hysteria, and guilt around children and screen time to get right down to the information I want: the data. The Art of Screen Time is a book I will keep on my shelf for a long time, as it’s a lucid and reliable source of honest and clear advice around children’s relationships with the digital world and my best way forward as a parent and as a teacher. - Jessica Lahey, author of The Gift of Failure |
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