Our Research
These videos shows a method that helped preschoolers learn vocabulary from video stories:
Dialogic Questioning with Video Stories
Do Videos Help Your Young Child Learn?
Favorite apps that use effective learning principles:
Vanderbilt Experts Choose Favorite Children's Educational Apps
How we partnered with a Vandy Engineering STUDENT to develop and test an app:
An Undergrad's Research to Boost Learning Apps
Vanderbilt Engineering Undergrad is Improving Children's Educational Apps
Useful sites with information about kids and media
Common Sense Media - provides accurate and thorough ratings of educational and age-appropriate content
Joan Ganz Cooney Center - independent research center studying the implications of media use in the
education system
Fred Rogers Center - located at St. Vincent College
Zero To Three - provides useful guidelines for screen use various downloadable items.
Recent magazine articles and radio programs that include our research:
Atlantic Magazine (Sept. 10, 2015). "Do babies know when they're Skyping?" by Adrienne LaFrance
Newsweek.com. (Mar. 22, 2015). "Screen rules for your baby."
Atlantic Magazine (April, 2013). "The touch-screen generation" (Cover story). by Hannah Rosin.
KQED Forum. (September 18,2015). "Managing your kid's screen time." (NPR San Francisco affiliate).
Lifezette.com. (2015). "Electronic Toys and How they Affect Little Brains" by Deirdre Reilly.
Parents Magazine (November 2011). "Going solo: Independent Play in Toddlers" by Ashley Phillips.
Momtastic.com. (2016). "Should Parents Let Their Toddlers Have Screen Time?" by Jennifer Benjamin.
Research from the Early Development Lab is featured in this excellent book: