Speakers: 

• Amy Orben  MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (@OrbenAmy)
• Eisha Buch  Director, Education Development & Programs, Common Sense Media (@CommonSenseEd)
• Lucía Magis-Weinberg  Adolescent Research Collaborative, IHD, UC Berkeley (@luciamawe)
• Moderator: Ron Dahl, Director, IHD, UC Berkeley

Join Via Zoom Here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95473395627

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is creating dramatic changes in the educational and social learning environments of children and adolescents. School closures and social distancing measures have impacted the lives of hundreds of millions of students around the world—along with massive increases in the use of technology as a source of remote learning experiences and social connection opportunities. These changes are raising many compelling questions These include a broad set of issues regarding the role of technology relevant to social development and psychological well being. This panel will address some of the ways current and future research can contribute to the emerging understanding of these rapid changes, challenges (and opportunities). 

A few notes about the contributors: 

• Amy Orben is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Alongside her her colleagues she has made major contributions to recent scientific understanding of technology use in children and adolescents, using innovative and rigorous statistical methodology with large-scale data to examine how digital technologies affect adolescent psychological well-being and mental health. Her work is shedding new light on pressing questions debated in policy, parenting and mental health (see refs below) 
• Eisha Buch is director of Education, Programs and Development at Common Sense Media. Alongside her colleagues, she has developed the Digital Citizenship Program, an award-winning K-12 curriculum teaching students around the world how to think critically about the opportunities and challenges of the digital world and to use technology responsibly to learn, create, and participate
• Lucía Magis-Weinberg is a research fellow at the Institute of Human Development and part of the Adolescent Research Collaborative at UC Berkeley. She leads Transitions a researcher-practitioner partnership project to characterize patterns of technology use and wellbeing in children and adolescents in Latin America. Alongside her colleagues, she has developed a large-scale culturally and developmentally informed intervention to foster healthy digital habits in schools in Perú and México. 

References: 

• Amy Orben, Tobias Dienlin, Andrew K. Przybylski. Social medias enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902058116, 2019.
• Amy Orben, Andrew K. Przybylski. Screens, Teens, and Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From Three Time-Use-Diary Studies. Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619830329, 2019.
• Amy Orben, Andrew K. Przybylski. The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use. Nature Human Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0506-1, 2019