Emerging Computer Skills

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• Available online: 22 Jul 2009

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Alexis R. Lauricella recently received a Master's degree from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and is a doctoral candidate in the Psychology Department at Georgetown University. Alexis currently works in the Children's Digital Media Center and studies how young children learn from media. She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she wrote her honors thesis under the mentorship of Dr. Daniel Anderson. Correspondence to: Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, 309B White-Gravenor, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA. Tel.: 202 687 7019; Fax: 202 687 6050;

Dr. Rachel F. Barr (PhD) is an associate professor of psychology at Georgetown University. She is currently the director of the Georgetown Early Learning Project, where she studies how infants learn from television, computers, or books, and how the home environment influences such learning. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Otago, New Zealand and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University before moving to Georgetown University in 2001. Dr. Barr was a ZERO TO THREE fellow in 2005.

Dr. Sandra L. Calvert is Chair and Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. She is also the Director of the Children's Digital Media Center which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Calvert has published numerous empirical articles, authored Children's Journeys through the Information Age (McGraw Hill, 1999), coauthored Food Marketing to Children and Youth (The National Academies Press, 2006) and Youth, Pornography, and the Internet (The National Academies Press, 2002), and coedited Children in the Digital Age (Praeger, 2002) and The Handbook of Children, Media, and Development (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).