Fran Blumberg

Fran Blumberg

Ph.D.

Professor, Counseling Psychology

113 West 60th Street
Lowenstein 1012B
212-636-6484
[email protected]

 

Office Hours:
Wednesdays and Thursdays: 3-4 p.m.
Fridays: 12-1 p.m. 
And by appointment

Fran Blumberg received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Purdue University in 1988. She joined the faculty of the Fordham Graduate School of Education in 1997 after working for nearly a decade for educational testing organizations such as the Educational Testing Service and the National League for Nursing.

Blumberg's research interests concern the development of children's attention and problem solving skills in the context of informal and formal digital learning settings. Her work has been recognized through funding from the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Center for Curriculum Redesign. Blumberg currently serves on several editorial boards, including Computers in Human Behavior and Games for Health Journal.

She is also the editor of Learning by Playing: Video Gaming in Education (Oxford University Press, 2014). Blumberg is co-editor (with Mark Blades, Caroline Oates, and Barrie Gunter) of Children and advertising: New issues and new media, (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014), and (with Patricia Brooks) of Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts (Academic Press, 2017).

Blumberg is most proud of her publications with her students, some of which are listed below:

Kline, N. T. & Blumberg, F. (2024). Young Adults with Autism May Possess Typical-Level Skills in Identifying Emotions from Person-in-Context Images. Journal of Non-verbal Behavior.

Blumberg, F.C., Sahni, H., Randall, J.D., Teeter, C. & Besharat Mann, R. (2024).  What do children and early adolescents say they do when playing an educational digital game?  International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.

Besharat Mann, R. & Blumberg, F. (2022). Adolescents and social media: The effects of frequency of use, self-presentation, social comparison, and self esteem on possible self imagery. Acta Psychologica, 103629.

Kim, C.Y., Kim, S., Blumberg, F. (2020). Attachment to God and Religious Coping as Mediators in the Relation between Immigration Distress and Life Satisfaction among Korean Americans. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 30, 304-321.

  • PhD, Developmental Psychology, Purdue University, IN
    MA, Developmental Psychology, Purdue University, IN

  • Kleinknecht, E., Blumberg, F.C., Flynn, R.M. (2024). Making a Case for Artificial Intelligence Literacy Skills for School-Age Children. In: Papadakis, S., Kalogiannakis, M. (eds) Education, Development and Intervention. Integrated Science, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60713-4_13

    Blumberg, F.C., Flynn, R.M., Homer, B.D., Bailey, J.O., Eng, C. M., Green, C.S., Giannakos, M., Papadakis, S., & Gentile, D.A. (2024). Current state of play: Children’s learning in the context of digital games. Journal of Children and Media.

    Hodent, C., Blumberg, F., & Deterding, S. (2024). Ethical Games: Toward Evidence-Based Guidance for Safeguarding Players and Developers. ACM Games: Research and Practice.

    Brodsky, J.E., Lodi, A., Powers, K., Blumberg, F., & Brooks, P. (2021). “It’s just everywhere now”: Middle-School and College Students’ Mental Models of the Internet. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies,3, 495-511.

    Flynn, R.M., Kleinknecht, E., Ricker, A., & Blumberg, F.C. (2021). A narrative review of methods used to examine digital gaming impacts on learning and cognition during middle childhood.  International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 30, 100325

    • Advanced Developmental Psychology (PSGE7301)
    • Development in Context (CLGE6540)
    • Human Development (PSGE6602)
    • Psychology of Child Development and Learning (PSGE5316)
    • Psychology of Media (PSGE6325)