Anya Kamenetz
Education Correspondent, NPR; Author, The Art of Screen Time
Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent for NPR and the author of several books. Previously a staff writer for Fast Company magazine, she has contributed to The New York Times,The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and Slate; commented for “PBS Newshour”; and appeared in documentaries on PBS and CNN. Kamenetz is the author of The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life; Generation Debt; DIY U; and The Test. Named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by Huffington Post, she has received several awards from the Education Writers Association and, with the NPR ed team, won the 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for innovation.
Previously
After The Atlantic ran a cover story with the headline “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation of Kids?” a spate of stories and opinion pieces followed. The media was flooded...
As technology advances into schools, and children grow up immersed in gadgets, apps, and social media, concerns about the implications of a high-tech environment on child deve...