Congress Considering $95 Million for Study of Technology’s Effects on Children
August 15, 2018
By: Benjamin Herold
Source: Education Week
A bipartisan bill now in Congress would give the National Institutes of Health $95 million over five years to fund studies on how media and technology effect children.
The proposed Children and Media Research Advancement Act, or CAMRA, outlines an ambitious research agenda. It calls for studies on the impact of “social media, applications, websites, television, motion pictures, artificial intelligence, mobile devices, computers, video games, virtual and augmented reality, and other media formats as they become available” on children’s cognitive, physical, and social-emotional development.
The bill’s prospects are unclear, although it is has the backing of heavy-hitters on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. Senate.