The research on the advantages and disadvantages of exposing children to digital technology has been a mixed picture. Our work is an effort to bring clarity to this field and to identify strategies for increasing the efficacy of this approach.
This article shares preliminary results of a literacy intervention using mobile devices for children who either do not have access to school or attend a vastly under-resourced school (Breazeal et al., 2016). The effort, led by the nonprofit Curious Learning, began as a research collaboration between MIT, Tufts University, and Georgia State University. Curious…