Sandra L. Calvert,
Interactive Media and Well-being

Sandra L. Calvert, PhD, the director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, is a professor of psychology at Georgetown University. She is author of Children’s Journeys Through the Information Age (McGraw Hill, 1999), and coeditor of Children in the Digital Age: Influences of Electronic Media on Development (Praeger, 2002).

Dr. Calvert’s research examines the role that interactivity and identity play in children’s learning from entertainment media through studies conducted by the Children’s Digital Media Center, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. She is also involved in media policy, recently completing research about children’s learning from educational and informational television programs required by the Children’s Television Act.

Professor Calvert is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. She has consulted for Nickelodeon Online, Sesame Workplace, Blue’s Clues, and Sega of America to influence the development of children’s television programs, Internet software, and video games.