ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Pixel Parenting is your monthly guide to raising tech-savvy, balanced kids. Hosted by Patricia Cangas Rumeu, a mum and a seasoned expert in digital literacy and educational technology, this podcast aims to empower parents to guide their kids’ tech use confidently and thoughtfully. From screen time to educational apps, join us to explore tools and insights that help kids—and parents—build healthy digital habits.
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Average audio length:
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English
United States
32 episodes
since Oct. 17, 2024
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Your child wants a new game, and the app store says it's educational. That label is checked for age, not for learning. In this episode I sit down with Dr. Erik Harpstead, Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, who studies the data behind kids' games …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Everything in the app store says "educational". A lot of it says "expert backed" and "research backed" too. None of those words are regulated, and none of them tell you whether the app in your hand does anything for your three-year-old. In this episode I sit down with Charlotte Anne Wright, a learn…
Your child asks to play Roblox, or some app that didn't exist when you were their age, and the first instinct is to Google the parental controls. In this episode I sit down with Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov, founder of DigitalParentingCoach.com and Roblox's first head of parental advocacy, to talk about…
Have you ever wondered what happens when a child starts talking to an AI like it's a friend? In this episode I sit down with Dr. Mathilde Cerioli, a cognitive neuroscientist and Chief Scientific Officer at the nonprofit everyone.ai, to unpack what AI companions actually are, what they do to a child…
What actually happens in your child's brain when they hand an assignment to AI — and is it really as harmless as it seems?Patricia Cangas sits down with Missy Widmann — doctor of education, co-founder of Neural Education, and visiting assistant professor at Pacific Lutheran University. A former hea…
How many hours a week are you mentally running through the family calendar, and what could you do with that time instead?Patricia Cangas sits down with Amy Briggs, founder and CEO of Aviva and a licensed speech-language pathologist, to dig into something every parent feels but rarely names: the inv…
Do you know how to tell if an AI tool has proper safeguards for kids?I welcome Vivian Chong, co-founder and CEO of apgard.ai, a youth AI safety startup working to make AI tools safer for children. Vivian and her team build evaluation and monitoring systems that detect harmful content in AI companio…
What would a machine be able to really be a friend?
This episode is a kids' philosophy conversation with Dr. Iris Oved (Paradox Lab) about friendship, robots, and anthropomorphism, the way our brains read emotion and intention into things that don't have them. Kids ages 7-10 meet Siri, Pebble AI, …
When was the last time you explained to grandparents why broadcasting your kids' photos to their friends is risky?Patricia Cangas talks with cybersecurity professionals Kae David and Chad Rychlewski, co-authors of Cyber Smart Parenting. Kae works with tech enterprises and has over 10 years in cyber…
Which parental mediation strategy does research say works best—and why?Patricia Cangas sits down with Kaitlin Tiches, a research librarian at Boston Children's Hospital and the Digital Wellness Lab, who translates the latest media research into practical guidance for families. Kaitlin unpacks paren…
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