We are excited to announce that Dr. Michael Gurian will provide a must-see Keynote on how digital use is affecting children’s brains, both empowering them and also putting them in danger. In his Sunday Keynote, Dr. Gurian will delve deeply into AI and other topics of concern to educators and parents.

We hope you’ll register now for the GI Summer Training Institute. It is virtual and available not just on the days-of but for weeks afterward via recording. Please see https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2026/. Now here’s more on Dr. Gurian’s keynote.

Sunday Morning Keynote, June 28, with Dr. Michael Gurian, Saving the Digital Child: Strategies for Empowering and Protecting Our Children in the Digital Age

This Keynote will focus on the newest science of digital life in children. Dr. Gurian will explore how to help schools, teachers, and children use tech safely and effectively. Overuse of social media and tech is a national mental health problem, yet tech is here to stay, especially with expanding use of AI by children and adults. Limiting screen time–which is necessary and important–is not the whole story.

This keynote focuses on tech use as both a positive and negative in children’s lives. Dr. Gurian looks carefully at the neural connection between tech use, especially among young children, and then brain issues later. Because some schools are one-to-one, he will bring parents into the equation, who may need to cut back on child tech use at home so that teachers can use tech in school. Dr. Gurian will also explore specific tech issues faced by boys and by girls–some are the same but many include brain difference and brain different responses to tech and screen time.

Some schools are going to a no-phone-during-the-school-day policy, and Michael will endorse that with brain science to show why it is a good plan. Other schools are going toward more hands-on, project-driven, and nature-based learning. Michael will provide brain research that also supports this direction in education. In this dynamic and moving keynote, Michael will provide insight and tools, strategies, and real-time conversations you can have with children as their parents and teachers to help them navigate their increasingly intense digital world.

Please Join Us in June!

To join this Summer’s event, please see https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-summer-institute-2026/. You can register right there on the site. For groups of five or more please contact Dakota Hoyt at info@gurianinstitute.com.

If you would like to become a Certified Trainer at this event, check out the Trainer Certification page on www.gurianinstitute.com then contact Dakota Hoyt at info@gurianinstitute.com.

Please let us know of any questions you have at info@gurianinstitute.com. See you in June!