How do sleep and screen time affect childrens learning and development?
What promotes academic achievement? What improves emotional wellbeing?
You want your students to be happy, healthy, and successful
We all want our children to be more active, sit less, study more, eat better, sleep more, or be more social. As parents and schools we get told all of these things are important, but research struggles to definitively say why. We want to make this clearer:
What is really important for children’s physical and mental health?
What should parent’s and schools be focusing on?
Where can they relax?
In this groundbreaking research funded by the Australian Research Council, we want your help answering these questions.
What the project involves:
It’s hard for parents to know what their children do with their time.
We don’t remember what our kids did all day yesterday. Our kids don’t remember either.
In this groundbreaking study we use secure, encrypted wearable cameras to measure what children are doing, and a research-grade FitBit-like device to measure sleep and physical activity.
With best-in-class privacy controls, the study involves:
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Measuring what children see
Children wearing an encrypted wearable camera for four days outside of school time
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Measuring what children do
Children wearing a waterproof, FitBit-like device to measure sleep and physical activity
Measuring how children are doing
Children, parents and teachers each complete a short questionnaire
Participating is easy
Collect data when you want
We will contact your designated school contact to distrubite our parent information letters to students and parents
You pick a date and time for us to come to your school to distribute the equipment to the students and take them through a questionnaire. A short questionnaire will also be sent to the teacher of participating students.
We come back a week later to collect the equipment.
Benefits for your school
As a token of appreciation teachers will be given free access to our award-winning, evidence-based online teacher professional learning program, iPLAY.
I Still Have Questions
To find out more about the study, please enter your name and contact details using the form below. A member of our team will get in touch with you.