Episode #26 Supporting Digital Wellbeing with Dr Kristy Goodwin

In this episode of The Learning Network Podcast, I am joined by Dr Kristy Goodwin for a conversation about Digital Wellbeing!

This is a crucial conversation to have as educators, as technology impacts our schools, classrooms and even Community and Family Studies. 

Dr Kristy Goodwin is an award-winning researcher, speaker, author, and mum on a mission to help parents and educators raise happy, healthy children and teens who thrive online and offline. She provides research-based but realistic advice and strategies to teachers and parents on how they can teach their children to use technology in productive and purposeful ways without reverting to phone bans or constant digital detoxes.

Dr Kristy authored the book Raising Your Child in a Digital World and has conducted numerous evaluations and research studies for the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities.

Listen along as Dr Kristy explains why she doesn't promote digital detox or "digital amputation" and how can we use technology in healthy and helpful ways. 

Technology can cause so much harm but, in today's society it has tentacles in every part of our lives, meaning we cannot be effective teachers, nor can our students effectively learn, without it. Dr Kristy dives into the biology which sees human fulfillment gained through physical and psychological means & the ways technology can be used in congruence with this neurobiology. 

This conversation is so timely for us as teachers being bombarded by technology as well as our students & so many things that Dr Kristy shares are practical, not only for our students, but for us as educators navigating this digital world that completely surrounds us.

Knowledge & understanding of the risks & rewards of technology use is essential for us as Community and Family Studies teachers in order to best support our Year 11 and 12 students in our classrooms. 

Listen to the episode & read the shownotes at thelearnnet.com/26.