Children and technology: what’s the right age?

Watch the recording of the meeting with Alberto Pellai that took place at STEP FuturAbility District as part of the scientific and cultural program. Content only available in Italian language.

Many people see technology as a tool that merely requires the right education in order to be used safely and effectively by children. Others believe that technology is an actual space in which we live that helps “mould” the mind and develop inadequate skills for real life challenges. What are the risks and potential of technology in the developmental years? And what criteria should we use when deciding what the right answers are to such complex questions? In this conversation, Alberto Pellai will illustrate the problem based on the information and findings that neuroscience has provided in recent years so we can understand what happens when a child picks up his or her smartphone and begins typing.

Alberto Pellai: doctor, child and adolescent psychotherapist, Ph.D in Public Health. Researcher at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Milan. In 2004, he received the silver medal for merit in Public Health. His books have been translated in twenty countries. He has 170,000 followers.

Programme appointments must be booked and this can be done online, subject to availability.