In the days of COVID-19, there are new and even more urgent questions to be asked now about digital well-being, given that most of us will need to depend almost exclusively on digital channels for social support for the foreseeable future.
Overnight parents around the world have become their children’s primary educators while managing their kids and their own professional, practical and emotional well-being.
Christina Crook, author of the best-selling book The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World and founder/host of the JOMOcast podcast, recently spoke to our very own Professor Kate Tilleczek, Canada Research Chair in Young Lives in Global/Local Contexts and the Director of the Young Lives Research Lab about the impact of online education on child development, during COVID-19 and beyond.