Responding to Concerns about Screen Time and Young Children: Shifting from Counting

Presented by Dr. Faith Rogow

1 HOUR | SELF-PACED | NON-INTERACTIVE | RECORDED FEBRUARY 2026

More than simply knowing how to use the latest tech gadget, the digital world demands thinking skills that are grounded in curiosity, creativity, and connection. Yet, many early childhood educators remain stuck in practices that, while based on our reasonable concerns about media, lead to a focus on screen time limits - a response that is increasingly meaningless in a world where we all use digital devices every day. Inquiry-based media literacy education offers an alternative that effectively addresses concerns by shifting the way we see the task. This webinar explores the rich possibilities offered by that approach. You’ll walk away with practical ideas for media literacy lessons and routines that are grounded in the joys of discovery and skill-building instead of our anxieties about tech. And you’ll learn the foundations of the approach so you can create your own fabulous, engaging lessons and routines.

Teachers, therapists, social workers, and other early childhood professionals working with young children will benefit from this webinar.

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Objectives

1. Explain the difference between viewing screen technologies through a public health lens and an education lens.

2. Identify strategies on how to integrate inquiry-based media literacy education into their work with children, including in daily routines as well as at least one specific media literacy activity they can do immediately

3. Examine their current approach to screen technologies for inquiry-based content and methods, consider ways to use what they find to create their own inquiry-based media literacy activities, and identify and take advantage of teachable moments.

Agenda

1. Reframing the Screen

2. Time Debate

3. Media Reform, Media Management, and Media Literacy

4. Defining Media Literacy Education in Early Childhood

5. Core Media Literacy Skills and Competencies

6. Teaching Children to Ask Questions and Read Clues

7. Perspective, Purpose, and Meaning-Making in Media

8. Practical Applications: Helping Children Analyze, Create, and Reflect

Duration: 1 HOUR

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Speaker's Biography

Faith Rogow, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, long-time leader, and globally acclaimed innovator of media literacy education practices. Her work includes helping to found the Journal for Media Literacy Education and authoring the groundbreaking Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates (NAEYC, 2022). For more than 30 years she has worked to ensure that inquiry-based media literacy instruction is as common in preK-12 schools as teaching traditional print literacy.
Through her consulting practice, InsightersEducation.com, she has designed nationally adopted curricula, educator trainings, and outreach initiatives for organizations including PBS, the Fred Rogers Center, Project Look Sharp, and the Peabody Award–winning A Place of Our Own / Los Niños en Su Casa. Her work spans K–16 settings, libraries, and community programs, and includes extensive writing, keynotes, and the development of media literacy tools used worldwide.

Host's Biography

Dr. Scott Mesh is the Director of Young Child Learning and the CEO and Co-Founder of Los Niños Services which serves 2,000 young children with special needs each year through homecare and center services. He is a Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience working with young children and their families and is an expert on assessing young children for developmental disabilities and autism. He has helped thousands of parents over the years make the transition to gaining help for their children through early childhood special education services. He is a leader in early childhood development and working effectively with parents.

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