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Social media fuelling youth mental health crisis? CIFAR researcher cites...
CIFAR | August 25, 2023
Candice Odgers, Co-Director of the Child & Brain Development program, recently debated whether social media negatively impacts children at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Games for Change, promoting ways games can improve the world,...
Axios | July 20, 2023
A talk on Tuesday, from University of California researchers Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler, zipped through studies about video games and gaming tech for everything...
Can Tracking Your Moods Make You Happier?
Wall Street Journal | July 15, 2023
Schueller and his colleagues found that most people really only track their moods a couple of times a week. They also discovered a paradox: While...
‘Open to Debate’: Is Social Media Bad for Kids’ Mental...
Aspen Ideas | June 30, 2023
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently released an advisory stating that social media can pose a risk of profound harm to children’s and adolescents' mental...
Nearly 23 percent of IRSD students seek mental-health services
Coastal Point | June 29, 2023
“Sometimes we find social media is associated with signs of depression, but it is a very tiny association,” said Odgers at the Aspen Ideas event....
Colorado school district targets social media companies in lawsuit
Axios | June 28, 2023
Candice Odgers, a psychologist and researcher, said the science is not conclusive that social media is to blame. The association is indistinguishable from other pressures,...
Mindfulness for Teens Today
Tricycle | May 17, 2023
I was recently discussing mental health with a group of seventh graders when a student said something that stopped my mind. “When we have an...
Are mental health apps helpful or harmful?
The Hill | May 2, 2023
"...it can take years for an app to be approved or to have a specific function approved., according to Schueller. Schueller noted that many of...
The Connected Arts Learning Framework: An Expanded View of the...
Philanthropy News Digest | April 25, 2023
A report from the Wallace Foundation offers a framework for connected arts learning—how arts education can help children build connections with their culture, identity, home...
Growth of AI in mental health raises fears of its...
Axios | March 9, 2023
...the area the FDA covers is confined to devices intended for diagnosis and treatment, which is limiting when one considers how expansive AI is becoming...
Games as Social Platforms Online: Game companies can and should...
ACM Games Research & Practice | March 3, 2023
“Online game companies need to start being more honest about what is happening in their games and what they are actually doing to protect consumers...
A Minecraft Server for Grieving Kids
Tech & Learning | January 25, 2023
ExperienceCraft is a Minecraft server that is not all that different from other Minecraft multiplayer servers. Kids who join the server are able to build,...