At Nemours Children's Health, Scott Shaw helps the health system's young patients play games. He's doing a lot more than just letting them have fun. Health IT isn't all fun and games. Until it is.

Ultimately, while there is potential for technology to make children smarter in some domains, we also know it can disrupt their attention, play and sleep. What we don't know is exactly how it impacts ...

As children grow up in a world shaped by technology, screens have become powerful tools for learning, creativity and ...

Michael Martin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

"In this romp through the changing landscape of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American toys, games, hobbies, and amusements, senior historian of technology Carroll Pursell poses a simple but ...

If you’re a fellow member of Generation Z, you’re all too familiar with this scenario: going out to a restaurant or a public setting to see a young child with their often-Millennial parents seeming ...

Historically, the concept of childhood as we know it today simply didn't exist and, until the Middle Ages, children were viewed as miniature adults. According to historian Philippe Ariès, it was only ...

In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, children jump rope with chains of rubber bands. In wartime Gaza, kids fly kites made from discarded parachutes. And in Ukraine, youngsters tussle in make-believe war, ...

Ultimately, while there is potential for technology to make children smarter in some domains, we also know it can disrupt their attention, play and sleep. What we don't know is exactly how it impacts ...

Valentina Fantasia receives funding from The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS). She is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive ...