Media’s impact on children crux of Ed Portal talk
Stopping time, or at least slowing it down, may be the key to staying abreast of research on the ever-changing world of technology and the impact it has on children. “For the last 50 years or so a new force we have to deal with — media and technology — reaches right into the home, right into the family, right into the community, and that affects how kids think about their place in the world and how they’re going to develop,” Joe Blatt, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, told an audience of nearly 50 parents, teachers, and area residents at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston. “That’s the subject I’m going to try to share with you: What children and young people do with media; what impact that media interaction has on their thinking and on their behavior; and what as both parents and citizens we might...