When I author columns on technology innovations of the day, I’m sometimes reminded of innovators from the past. Modern technologies we so readily embrace most likely came from innovators who attempted ...

Justin Reich has received funding from Google, Microsoft, Apple, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chan/Zuckerberg Initiative, the Hewlett Foundation, education publishers, and other ...

In the whirling madness that began when the smartphone achieved ubiquity around 2012, a great many parents did not know what to do. There was massive pressure to give children phones, laptops and ...

As back-to-school season is in full swing, I have been reflecting on my time with my five kids — including my oldest, who’s gearing up for college — and I’m reminded how deeply technology is woven ...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are seizing on new revelations about “sensual” chatbot conversations Meta deemed acceptable for children, dragging the tech giant and its checkered past on ...

Recent revelations about how AI chatbots are interacting with and affecting children are colliding with long-standing concerns about tech companies’ approach to safety and revitalizing efforts to pass ...

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen. By Catherine Pearson Jean Twenge’s three teenage daughters ...

Spring break is around the corner, and every parent knows the challenge of keeping kids entertained without resorting to handing over their smartphone for an endless scroll of prank videos. While ...