Katie Davis asks, "When does technology support child development, and when does it not?" I'm going to say first that I think this is a pretty good answer: "I argue that digital experiences that are self-directed and community supported are best for children's healthy development," writes Davis. Now - is this the complex made concrete? Not exactly - though it does give people a tool to create their own concrete response to the question (and that's what you need, because no single concrete answer will ever resolve a complex question). You can read Davis's brand new blog here (I opted not to subscribe to the newsletter, which appears to function more as advertising for her book). Personally, I think that something like a blog should be used to help develop ideas, rather than market them afterward - because it's experiences and community support that create knowledge, not 672 footnotes covering 86 pages (in the field we just call that 'academic cover').
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