Barbie Clarke spoke at the Naace Conference to a large audience of school leadership, local authorities and advisors about research carried out the FK&Y on one-to-one tablet devices in schools. The talk can be seen here

at the MRS Kids and Youth Conference – Siv will talk about findings from a UK nationally representative survey carried out with parents, children and teachers. Digital Kids and Youth Research

Speakers from Carphone Warehouse, TOTP Magazine, CBBC, Morrisons, Brook, Soreen, Immediate Media, Complete Control, The Walt Disney Company, Egmont Publishing – MRS

Launching the Digital Kids day Barbie presented Family Kids and Youth’s latest digital survey carried out with parents, children and teachers. Blog

Family Kids and Youth’s research – based on focus groups, ethnography and quantitative research -demonstrates the way in which Tablets are opening up new opportunities for children’s creativity, motivation to learn, and social skills. Children’s Media Conference

Family Kids and Youth’s research in homes and in schools has shown widespread use of Apps. Barbie will summarise the research that has looked at the way children are using Apps for information, entertainment and communication.

I attended an excellent conference yesterday at the British Library (yesterday was ‘Super Thursday’, the day booksellers rush out titles for Christmas). Organised by The Bookseller, the Children’s Conference looked at the digital landscape for children and considered how this is impacting on print media; the conference had a thoughtful and receptive audience as well as insightful co-speakers. I presented key findings from our Digital Family Kids and Youth research. It is the season of…
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