What Matters for Young Children's Healthy Digital Media Use and Learning? With Rachel Barr, PhD

About this episode

Dr. Rachel Barr discusses the challenges young children face in learning from digital media compared to real-world experiences.

For decades, researchers have studied why babies and young children learn differently from screens than they do from real-world experiences. On this episode of Screen Deep, host Kris Perry is joined by Dr. Rachel Barr, Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University and a leading expert in early childhood and digital media. Dr. Barr describes why it’s difficult for young children to learn from digital media, a concept called the “video transfer deficit effect,” and explains which specific fe...

People in this episode

Host: Kris Perry

Guest: Rachel Barr

Topics covered

• digital media
• early childhood
• learning
• video transfer deficit
• parenting

Keywords

• digital media
• young children
• learning
• video transfer deficit
• psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Georgetown University

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