Is your child's school Chromebook really helping them learn?
Neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath on what screens, edtech, and AI in school are doing to how kids learn.
We got phones out of schools, but most kids still spend hours a day on a school-issued laptop, in nearly every class. In this episode of Raising Good Humans, developmental psychologist Dr. Aliza Pressman talks with neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, author of The Digital Delusion, about what the research shows on edtech in schools. Dr. Horvath has spent nearly two decades studying the science of learning. He explains why engagement isn't the same as learning, why reading and writing on paper still beat screens, and why a tool introduced before a child has mastered the skill can keep them from ever learning it.
What you’ll learn:
- Skill before tool: the calculator rule for deciding when kids are ready for tech and AI
- Why engagement on a screen isn't proof that kids are learning
- Why kids learn best from people, and how screens disrupt that connection
- The digital literacy paradox: why "digital natives" are falling behind older generations
- What changes to the SAT reveal about falling reading and writing skills
- Practical ways parents can protect real learning at home
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