Canadian researcher Kate Tilleczek, Canada Research Chair on Youth, Education & Global Good, addresses the impact of online education on child development, during COVID-19 and beyond. Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, millions more children than ever are learning at home- and online. But the transition to increasingly digital and online environments for youth education was happening, and as usual, it happened with little pause to consider how much digital is a good thing, and how the personal and physical can find a balance with the remote and digital to best serve learning and well-being.    Dr. Tilleczek offers wise counsel to parents and educators everywhere: “With the pandemic, we really have a moment to reset, and see what makes the most sense for us as a society.” Key takeaways from this conversation:   - How young people are processing their own immersion in digital channels of communication, socialization, and learning   - How the social distancing-created explosion of remote learning has created an opportunity to observe the impact of the always-online life   - The observed and measurable impact of globalized tech immersion in young people, including the decline of social skills and increased anxiety, isolation, and marginalization   - How current research is exploring the rising self-awareness of the detrimental effects of tech overload across generations and finding solutions within that consciousness   - The ways young people can, post- and mid-COVID, build balance and wellness into their digital-enabled lives Support   This podcast is made possible by you — our listeners all over the world — from Brazil to Australia, the USA to Singapore. Please support the JOMO(cast) for just $3 a month. Sign up at patreon.com/jomocast. Thank you for supporting the content that supports you.  Go Deeper    Sign Up for 7 Days of JOMO Quests, a free series of science-backed challenges to reclaim joy experiencejomo.com/free-resources    Follow @experiencejomo on Instagram, Facebook + Twitter  Resources   The references and ideas mentioned in this episode:   Learn, contribute, and participate with the Young Lives Research Laboratory at York University Read Kate’s most recent book: Youth in the Digital Age: Paradox, Promise, Predicament (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society) Follow Young Lives Research Laboratory on Facebook Kate on Research Minute Kate recommends: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshana Zuboff Favorite Quotes:   “It says a lot to me about some of the limits that we’re reaching in technology when something so easy and simple [as handwritten letters to students] looks like a major breakthrough to people.”   “Young people are suggesting to me that they want to reassess how technology is helping with… health, mental health, employment, environment, etc.”   “With the pandemic, we really have a moment to reset, and see what makes the most sense for us as a society.”