Articles

The Free Press, Jared Cooney Horvath, We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains

The Preamble, Jared Cooney Horvath, We Put Reading on Screens. It Backfired.

After Babel, Amy Tyson, The False Promise of Device Based Education

CNN, Students learn less when they use tech. So why do schools keep giving kids devices?

National Education Policy Center, Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

"Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, instruction, collaboration, assessment, and communication. This policy brief highlights how these platforms are not neutral “tools” but complex ecosystems shaped by technical architectures, commercial imperatives, and political-economic interests."

AI

LA Times, Google search AI deemed 'unacceptable risk' for kids

The New Yorker, What Will It Take To Get AI Out of Schools?

NY Times, AI Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12

Fast Company, AI impairs brain performance, problem-solving

NY Times, Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era

Benjamin Riley, The 50 Percent Problem: Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI

Large Evidence Studies

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Digital Dystopia: The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling

National Education Policy Center (NEPC), Time for a Pause - AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good

National Education Policy Center (NEPC), How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Surgeon General's Warning on Screen Use

National Institute of Health (NIH), Effects of Excessive Screen Time on Child Development

National Institute of Health (NIH), The hazards of excessive screen time

JAMA, Addictive Screen Use Trajectories and Suicidal Behaviors, Suicidal Ideation, and Mental Health in US Youths

Social Science Research Network, The Generative AI Learning Penalty

Other School District Policy Revisions

LAUSD - Guidelines for Student Screen Time Policy

Beverly Hills - Intentional Technology Use in the Classroom, Digital Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Education

Carroll, TX - Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Student Screen Time