S3 E13: The Worth of Gaming & Screen Time with The Gamer Educator, Ash Brandin

The Gamer Educator (Ash Brandin) offers caregivers and educators tips for managing screens that benefit everyone involved. Ash speaks to the importance of understanding how various studies frame anti-screen rhetoric. Listeners will leave the conversation inspired to engage with the children in their lives about screen time and tackle the societal challenges that anti-screen rhetoric distracts our attention from. Ash asks us to reconsider seeing screen time as a waste of time and instead consider the life skills developed through leisure activities.

Episode Mentions:

• Commentary on Radio in the 1920s 
• Ohio State University Study: Screen time not harmful for academic skills of preschoolers

Connect & Learn with Ash:

• at their website
• on Instagram

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When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, they create schools where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged, supported, and ready to thrive.