During the pandemic Jan Plass learned firsthand how nuanced the discussion around kids and screen time has to be. At one point, he became upset with his teenage children about how much time they were spending in front of screens.
“So I go into their rooms ready to tell them to get off their computers. My older one says, ‘Dad, I just composed another song, look,’” says Plass, director of CREATE Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technologies in Education at New York University. “My younger one was in his room, and when I got ready to get mad at him, he had just looked up how to play a piano piece by a particular pianist in a certain style.”
