• How can we equip parents, families, and carers to support children through safe access and use of technology outside educational settings?
Background
Technology, including digital technology and artificial intelligence, has great potential to transform lives, but we need to develop our expertise to deploy them well, and to help learners, families and carers to use them safely and judiciously, taking account of the need for a healthy balance of “screen time” and time away from screens. (For brevity, please read all references to children as encompassing both children and young people where appropriate).
Full details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-areas-of-research-interest
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Related UKRI funded projects
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0-3-year-old children's language and literacy learning at home in a digital age (0-3s, Tech and Talk)
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Why might this be relevant?
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Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing parental monitoring software to support children's safe access to technology.
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How Much is Too Much? Leveraging Existing and Emerging Large-Scale Social Data to Build Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
The amount of time British children and adolescents spend on digital technologies has more than doubled in the past decade, and debates about the possible impact of excessive screen use are prominent in the scientific an...
Funded by: ESRC
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Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to provide evidence-based policy for children in the digital age, addressing the impact of technology on psychological well-being and proposing interventions.