Connecting Digital Literacy to Social and Emotional Development
The importance of how technology impacts social and emotional development is not newly identified – however, due to the pandemic, it is more widely discussed as youth are required to increase screen time to access distance learning, despite studies that show how increasing screen time for recreational use (e.g. social media, video gaming, entertainment, etc.) has an adverse impact on youth’s emotional development. While noted, one must consider whether a form of virtual recre