Infants
Early Childhood
Play Age
School Age
Potpourri
100

Infants learn best from on-screen media when this viewing condition occurs with caregivers.

What is co-viewing or joint attention with parents?

100

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time before this age, except for video chatting.

What is 18–24 months?

100

In Erikson’s theory, this psychosocial stage is associated with children ages 3–6.

What is Initiative vs. Guilt?

100

On average, children aged 6–11 spend this many hours per day on screens.

What is 2.5 to 3.5 hours per day?

100

The authors of Sarah’s role play story arc lazily named her stuffed animal after this fabric softener.

What is Snuggle?

200

Research shows that positive screen-based learning in infancy depends on three caregiver factors—name two.

What are modeling healthy screen habits, choosing quality content, and limiting exposure to under one hour per day?

200

Toddlers exposed to more than one hour of mobile screen time per day tend to show delays in this developmental domain.

What is lower language comprehension, expression, executive function?

200

According to Boksjö & Ehrlin (2023), this is one way screens in the classroom can be a useful tool.  

Either: What is Supporting a child’s creativity and imagination? What is assisting teachers with explaining concepts?

200

Heavy screen exposure near bedtime is associated with these three sleep-related problems.

What are irregular sleep patterns, reduced sleep duration and morning irritability?

200

This role-play counselor often utters judgmental phrases while refusing to come out from behind his notebook and actually work with clients on their level

Who is Mark?

300

According to Anderson & Hanson (2010), this is the approximate age range that infants begin recognizing people and simple action sequences on screen.

What is 6–18 months?

300

This percentage of children have their own tablet by age two.

What is 40%?

300

For every additional hour of screen time, children can lose approximately this number of cognitive points.

What is about 2.47 points?

300

Child screen habits are often modeled after these people.

Who are caregivers?

300

The authors of the Sarah role play gave her two mothers very similar names just to make our lives even harder.  This mother of Sarah is the one who’s still alive.

Who is Mommy?

400

This term describes infants’ difficulty transferring learning from a 2D screen to a 3D real-world experience?

What is the video deficit effect?

400

Interactive and educational media, especially when co-viewed with caregivers, can facilitate learning gains in these two cognitive areas.

What are learning gains in vocabulary and problem solving?

400

Excessive screen use in early play age can stunt these three key socio-emotional abilities.

What are interpreting, perceiving, and expressing emotion?

400

The neurobiological impact of heavy screen use lowers activity in these brain regions related to socioemotional functioning.

What are the prefrontal areas responsible for self-control, empathy, and attention?

400

If a student watched every bit of compelling and fascinating asynch video in this class, they watched this many hours, minutes and seconds of content.

What are 7 hours 37 minutes, 38 seconds?