Brains and Screens: Parenting and Teaching through the Attention Economy

Our job as parents is to raise balanced, well adjusted, healthy, happy adults. Although we say we raise kids, we're really raising adults. We care for them through infancy, we play and support them through childhood, we guide and coach them through adolescence - but we raise them, with the tools we have and the things we know into adulthood. There is no shame in 

In this workshop we'll explore:

• The latest research on brain development

• Understanding dopamine and it's impacts on motivation

• Screen time - consumptive vs. creative

• What are "toxic" screens

• The attention economy and persuasive technology

• Next steps and strategies