Digital Nutrition with Jocelyn Brewer
Jocelyn Brewer is a registered psychologist based in Sydney, Australia. She works both in public schools (across K -12) and in private practice. She consults, speaks and writes on issues relating to technology, psychology, and learning.
Jocelyn has over 12 years experience in public education both as a teacher of high school social sciences and as a school counsellor/psychologist. Her 2009 psychology thesis explored the impacts of increasing access to Internet enabled laptops on a cohort of grade 10 boys and the emerging area of Problematic Internet Use (PIU) colloquially known as ‘Internet Addiction’.
Jocelyn is the creator of Digital Nutrition – a framework to guide parents and consumers understand the virtual nutritional values of the online media content we consume via apps and games on tablets and screen technology. Digital Nutrition was awarded the NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship for Health Education, and will be the subject of Jocelyn’s Masters of Applied Science research project at Sydney University’s Faculty of Health Sciences. Visit Jocelyn's Digital Nutrition site at: http://www.digitalnutrition.com.au/
