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School Without Screens

Advocating for limiting screen time for young children, and promoting hands-on education. "What we're saying is that this is an essential tool.

This page began with opposing the use of iPads in Kindergarten classrooms, as a school district in Maine pushed aside books as if they were written in Latin, and planned to provide iPads for each incoming class of Kindergarteners. It's even more important than a book, and it's a learning tool that they need to have." The replacement of teacher-student human interaction and the use of actual books

in the classroom is a scary but real possibility for our children's future. School is the one place that we can restrict the amount of screen time children are subjected to. We must resist the use of the iPad in a five-year old's education!

04/24/2026

The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board voted to restrict students’ use of laptops and tablets in class and encourage pen-and-paper assignments instead, making it the first major American school system to do so.

The sweeping resolution, which passed 6-0 with one recusal, requires the district to create a screen time policy for each grade and subject, prohibit students in first grade and younger from using devices, clarify the process for parents to opt their child out of using technology at school, and audit its education technology contracts.

The resolution is a remarkable change in direction for the nation’s second-largest school district following several years of investment in education technology, or ed tech, which was championed by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.

Read more: nbcnews.to/4vGgsbT

03/25/2026

A jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in the design or operation of their platforms, producing a bellwether verdict in the first lawsuit to take tech giants to trial for social media addiction.

The plaintiff, identified in court by her initials, K.G.M., was awarded $3 million in compensatory damages, finding Meta 70% responsible for harm caused to the now-20-year-old, and YouTube responsible for 30%.

🔗: nbcnews.app.link/6MRwHRyKN1b

11/08/2025

One of the strongest predictors of a child's screen time is a parent's screen time. Here's how to strive for balance with your own screen time, so you and your family have more time for real-world connection. https://n.pr/4oTvoir

10/17/2025

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

05/18/2025

by Jonathan Haidt

05/27/2024

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

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