Children’s Digital Media Center

Welcome!

Welcome to the Children’s Digital Media Center at Georgetown University. We are dedicated to understanding how digital media influence children’s development. Primarily through funds from the National Science Foundation and private foundations, we conduct research, train researchers, and disseminate information to policymakers and businesses about children and digital media in order to create a quality […]

Video Exercise Helps Overweight, Obese Teenagers Lose Weight

The first study demonstrating weight loss from video games that require physical activity has been published online in the journal Obesity by a Georgetown team comprising Amanda Staiano (G’09, G’10), psychology professor Sandra Calvert and Dr. Anisha Abraham. The analyses examined whether a 20-week exergame intervention could produce weight loss and improve psychosocial outcomes for […]

Toddlers Learn Early Math Skill from Elmo

In a recent study conducted at the Children’s Digital Media Center, Dr. Calvert, Alexis R. Lauricella, and Alice Ann Howard Gola examined toddlers’ ability to learn from Elmo. This MSNBC interview features Dr. Calvert discussing their finds that toddlers performed a sequencing task better when an Elmo puppet demonstrated it than when an unfamiliar puppet performed […]

NSF Addresses Youth Violence

July 20, 2012 in Uncategorized

Sandra Calvert, a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, served on a special subcommittee of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee (SBE/AC) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The subcommittee examined the causes of youth violence in the aftermath of the rampage killings at Newtown, Connecticut, as well as the kinds of additional research that need to be conducted in this area. The report was subsequently delivered to Representative Wolf, who had requested the report from NSF to prevent these kinds of tragedies in the future.

Comments Off on NSF Addresses Youth Violence