I agree pretty strongly with the viewpoint of this article. When I contrast the computer science education I received in public High School (writing programs in BASIC and FORTRAN to solve real problems) vs. what I see a lot of now (drag and drop block programming environments like Scratch, Mindstorms, iOS apps, etc.) I wonder whether kids are really gaining an understanding of basic computer science and logical principles.

I recently gave a presentation to parents at our school titled Children in a Digital World. The focus was current research on screen time, educational technology, and helping kids stay safe online. Here is the slideshow in PDF format. Some of the slides will not be that informative without the context of what I said when presenting but I'm posting it here in case it could be useful to anybody working on a similar presentation.



https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4oFdBU0Ve2iNk1vblVXVUFZeUk/view?usp=sharing

Follow up: This is a good article on the same subject:

http://digg.com/2016/smartphone-toddler-studies