The Sandbox Summit started as just an event, a few days of forums and exhibits at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this past January. A couple hundred people turned out to listen to industry experts talk about how technology is changing the way children play. (I made remarks introducing one of the panels and blogged a little here.)
Now the Sandbox Summit is becoming something more -- a continuing forum, both on and offline, designed to look more deeply at the question from all sides, including educators, company leaders, health experts, child advocates and parents. The advisory board was announced last week and I'm excited to be a part of it. Journalists are supposed to avoid joining boards, and I thought hard about this one. But since I'm already a regular writer for Parents' Choice, the foundation that started the Sandbox Summit, I recognize that I'm already in the mix and invested in helping to further the conversation. As with this blog, my goal is to continue investigating what we know -- based on scientific research wherever possible -- about how electronic media is affecting the way we, as human beings, learn and think.
The next Sandbox Summit, titled The New Playing Fields, is scheduled for September 24 in New York City.
Monday, May 19, 2008
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