How did we end up with a device in every pocket, a screen in every hand? How did childhood change from a time of relative freedom, to a period of electronic tethering? This presentation invites you to rethink the story of digital technology, and to ponder how we came to build a global machine that eats childhood. Led by Ross Parker, educator and technologist, and based on research, professional experience and personal anecdote, it raises questions around how we choose to raise and educate our young, and points to ways to live better in an age of ubiquitous devices.

Participants will leave with a clear intellectual framework from which to consider screens and their impact on our young, as well as a series of anecdotes and theories through which they can share this understanding within their own schools.