Joanna Kolak
joanna-kolak.bsky.social
Joanna Kolak
@joanna-kolak.bsky.social
Lecturer in Language Development at UCL. Researching bilingual development, educational potential of media, and children’s learning from media.
Our new paper is out - a massive team effort and few years of data collection and analyses, to finally be able to present this meta-analysis + cross-linguistic experimental study + corpus study + discriminative learning model :)
August 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🎧 UK parents & preschool teachers!
Join our interactive workshop on young children’s media use.
🎓 Learn what research says
🗣 Share your experience
🛠 Co-create guidance for others
🎁 £10 voucher for your time!
🔗 www.bit.ly/00mediaworkshop

#parenting #earlyyears #digitalmedia #edtech #preschool
July 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Joanna Kolak
The papers all follow a similar template and make misleading claims

https://go.nature.com/4kucwEH
AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers
Analysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets.
go.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’m delighted to have been nominated for a Student Choice Award in the Active Student Partnership category. I was lucky to be supported as a student and now I can give back by involving students in my research and supporting their growth. I’m grateful to all the amazing students I’ve worked with!
May 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Help us improve children’s experiences with touchscreen apps!

We developed a tool to help caregivers and educators of primary aged children choose good quality apps and we would love to hear parents’ feedback on the tool! 💡

Online survey:
qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

#screentime #apps
April 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We invite parents of children aged 6-11 to take part in our short online survey! 💻📱

We developed a tool to help parents and educators choose good quality apps for their children and we would love to hear parents’ feedback on the tool! 💡

tinyurl.com/5n7um5rw

#screentime #educationalmedia #apps
April 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
(1/2) Our new study led by M. Krysztofiak analysed mono- & bilingual children’s (aged 3–7) word retrieval errors to understand how they organise mental vocabularies.
Bilinguals made more naming errors & omissions in their L1 than monolinguals, but both groups showed the same rate of semantic errors.
April 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM