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Recommended Reading
Books:
The Digital Delusion, by Jared Cooney Horvath
Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools by Natasha Singer
Books for Kids/Teens:
Kids' Brains & Screens, by Melanie Hempe (middle-high school)
The Amazing Generation, by Jonathan Haidt & Catherine Price (ages 8-14+)
The Adventures of Super Brain: Join the mission to power up your brain and choose screen-free fun!, by Melanie Hempe (ages 7-10)
Substacks/Blogs:
Articles:
The Free Press, Jared Cooney Horvath, We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains
The New Yorker, What Will It Take To Get AI Out of Schools?
After Babel, Amy Tyson, The False Promise of Device Based Education
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."
