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After 2020, parenting will never be the same. All of our families have drastically changed their relationships with technology during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Acclaimed author, Anya Kamenetz delivers a deeply-researched, candid, and refreshing view on managing the role of technology in kids’ lives — and in our own lives. Anya will give an overview of the research on both the positive and negative aspects of technology use, and will offer evidence-based, practical strategies and tips. You will learn how to survive the ubiquity of technology, curb anxiety, and how to create room for a more happy, healthy, balanced life. The need to build resilience in our children is also a key element for post-coronavirus parenting and will be explored.
Anya Kamenetz is an expert on learning and technology and an educational futurist with a passion for the complexities of how we learn, work, and live in the new millennium.
Anya is part of a dynamic team at National Public Radio coordinating national coverage of education both online and on-air. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration, the Grad Rates project.
Kamenetz is the author of several books. Her latest is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (PublicAffairs, 2018). Her previous books touched on student loans, innovations to address cost, quality, and access in higher education, and issues of assessment and excellence: Generation Debt; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, and The Test.Kamenetz covered technology, innovation, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She’s contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and appeared in documentaries shown on PBS and CNN.
In a recent NYT article, author Anya Kamenetz reflects on her pre-pandemic pronouncements about children’s technology use and offers new advice, like focus on feelings, not screens.