What the Digital World is (Not) Doing for Our Adolescents’ Brains and Literacy 

Photo of Katie RybakovaKatie Rybakova, Ph.D.
Presenter

Associate Professor of Education and Chair of the Lunder School of Education
Thomas College

In this session, we’ll discuss the impact of screen time on the human brain from infancy to adolescence, how it impacts SEL and literacy, why you should care, and, most importantly, what we can do about it. We’ll build the bridge to creating lifelong readership habits in every content area in our middle-level students, promoting a cascade of positive impacts from a highly developed empathy to beginning catharsis from trauma.