Growing Up Into a Digital World: Educational Challenges (EN)

 What Parents and Teachers Should Know

with Prof. Alberto Pellai

The APEEE of Uccle/Berkendael and Ixelles are pleased to invite you to on online conference on smartphone and social media use in pre-adolescence.

Many think that technologies are tools that in developmental age simply require the correct education to be used safely and effectively. Others believe that technologies are real living environments that contribute to "shaping" the mind and developing skills that are not adequate to face the challenges of real life. What are the risks and potentials of technologies in developmental age? and what are the criteria to use to establish how to give correct answers to such complex questions? In this conversation, Alberto Pellai will provide a vision of the problem starting from the information and evidence that neuroscience has provided us in recent years to understand what happens when a minor enter the digital world.

When: Tuesday, 18 March 2025 at 19:00

Where: online, via Zoom (more information to come)

Language: English

Parents will be able to submit questions to Prof. Pellai via the chat function in Zoom.

A recording of the event will be made available for those who are unable to attend live.

Alberto Pellai is a medical Doctor, a developmental age psychotherapist, PhD in Public Health and researcher at the University of Milan. In 2004 the Italian Ministry of Health awarded him the Silver Medal for excellence in the field of Public Health. He has published many books for teachers and parents which have become best sellers and translated into more than fifteen countries. On social media he is followed every day by more than 230,000 followers.