Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1613739516 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Veteran teachers Joe Clement and Matt Miles have seen firsthand how damaging technology overuse and misuse has been to our kids. On a mission to educate and empower parents, they show how screen saturation at home and school has created a wide range of cognitive and social deficits in our young people. Yet the most important question, “Is this what is best for students?” is glossed over. They lift the veil on what’s really going on in schools: teachers who are often powerless to curb cell phone distractions; zoned-out kids who act helpless and are unfocused, unprepared, and unsocial; administrators who are influenced by questionable science sponsored by corporate technology purveyors. They provide action steps parents can take to demand change and make a compelling case for simpler, smarter, more effective forms of teaching and learning.. Over the past decade, educational instruction has become increasingly digitized as districts rush to dole out laptops and iPads to every student
“Screen Schooled is the most vivid, intelligent, and compelling book I have yet seen on what technology is doing for, and to, our schools.” —Jay Mathews, author of Work Hard. How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America. Be Nice