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Ten Questions to Ask Your School Leaders About EdTech Products zurl.co/S1xky

Chromebooks and iPads were getting in the way of learning, according to leaders at this rural school. So, they banned them. chalkbeat.org/2026/03/25/scr…

@lilyalta This is amazing! Get kids off screens and back to books. This movement is starting to take off. 📚

NEW: a school in northern MI might just be a test case for the anti-screen movement. Educators banned Chromebooks in the middle of the school year. We spent a day: chalkbeat.org/2026/03/25/scr…

Author Jason Reynolds on What Fires the Imagination of Young Readers. zurl.co/f6Rx4

Nearly one third of parents say their children under age 8 have used AI for school-related material. Why parents are pushing back against tech use in the classroom zurl.co/t0ETz

Victory in the social media trial in LA! As of today, we are in a new world: a new era in the fight to protect children from online harms. A jury sided with Kaley and therefore with millions of children: Big Tech is harming kids on an industrial scale. For years, parents were told these harms were exaggerated, anecdotal, or simply the unavoidable cost of growing up online. Today, a jury affirmed what parents have long known: Meta and YouTube were designed to exploit young people, with devastating consequences. For the first time, the law aligns with common sense: social media companies no longer have a special exemption to harm children with impunity. Their shield is gone. They will be treated like any industry that knowingly harms children and lies about it. History will judge them as harshly as the tobacco industry. This bellwether case tested a new legal theory: the harm is not just what algorithms show children, but rather that these products were designed to foster addiction. The companies knew they were harming children by the millions—and did it anyway. They were negligent and dishonest. This outcome belongs first and foremost to the families, especially the many parents who, in the face of unimaginable loss, chose to speak out, demand accountability, and endure a painful legal process so that other children might be spared. This is just the beginning. Thousands of cases will follow, bringing Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube to court. Much work remains in courts, legislatures, schools, and communities. But for now, let us all just savor the long-awaited arrival of justice. nytimes.com/2026/03/25/tec…

@GovernorShapiro inquirer.com/education/lowe…?

The best thing we can do for our kids right now is to just let them be kids. Kids are getting cell phones sooner than any generation before them, screen times are up while real human connection is down, and foundational skills aren’t being taught enough these days. We need to take a step back. It’s why I just signed a bipartisan bill into law, requiring cursive handwriting to once again be taught in PA public schools. It’s also why I’ve called on the legislature to pass a bill requiring schools to both implement a bell-to-bell cell phone ban and guarantee recess for every Pennsylvania student.  Let’s continue our work to set young people on a path to success — and let our kids be kids.

Sal Khan: Regulating screen time is ‘common sense’ zurl.co/xnUCM Seems like we might be getting to a real conversation about screens in schools when Sal Khan weighs in.

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‘They’re Our Kids’: How Teaching English Learners Is Changing zurl.co/wd0xm

This is why removing screens from elementary schools is so important. Kids must learn handwriting - not typing at an early age. This is common sense - yet how many PreK-3 classrooms do the exact opposite? Get kids back to pencils, paper and books! 📚

Yes - get kids back to reading books! 📚

"In a 2025 RAND survey of pre-K teachers, roughly two-thirds reported using games on electronic devices in their classrooms." 😭

Denmark is investing $83,754,486 in textbooks and turning away from its digital-first approach to education. This follows research showing that screens reduce concentration, impact mental health, and hurt student performance. Yet another dynamic to the EdTech debate.

The world’s top performing school systems have never abandoned textbooks. Nearly all 10-year-olds in Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are issued with standardized textbooks in core subjects, compared with some 10 per cent in the U.K and in Canada.

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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." ~Dr. Seuss

Get the screens out of schools.... Back to books! 📚

10 Female Reading Scientists to Thank for Shaping Literacy Instruction in the U.S. zurl.co/zQdA7 📚 @Ignite Reading