Recommended Educational Content for Parents

Check out some of our favorite books, articles, podcasts, and documentaries that are all excellent resources to learn more about the dangers of tech in schools and the steps you can take to protect your kids.

Articles:

iPads Don’t Belong in School

Kids are Using A LOT of Tech at School.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Transform Education. This Town Fought Back

The Question We Should All Be Asking

Why We Should Let the Kids Drive the School Bus [SATIRE]

For Note Taking, Low-Tech Is Often Best

Technology can hurt students’ learning, research shows

Without Public Oversight, AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good.

The False Promise of Device-Based Education

Why Opt Out?

Relationship Blockers in the Classroom

What Administrators, Superintendents, and Principals Need to Know

'Educational' Screens In Classrooms Do More Harm Than Good

What’s the Problem With EdTech?

Phone-Free Schools Are Half the Solution

Get Tech Out of the Classroom Before It’s Too Late

Screens Have Taken Over Classrooms. Even Students Have Had Enough.

The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech in Schools

Books:

The Screentime Solution

by Emily Cherkin

The Opt-Out Family

by Erin Loechner

Glow Kids

by Nicholas Kardaras, PhD

Irresistable

by Adam Atler

The Anxious Generation

by Jonathan Haidt

Better Than Real Life

by Richard Freed, PhD

Screen Schooled

by Matt Miles and Joe Clement

Who’s Raising the Kids

by Dr. Susan Linn

Documentaries:

Childhood 2.0

The Social Dilemma

Social Studies

Podcast Episodes:

Devices at School: Have we gone too far? (with Chris McKenna)

School Tech: Know Your Rights (with attorney Julie Liddell)

Teachers Talk (with Kathleen Barlow)

Videos:

We need to talk about school-issued tech

We need to talk about school-issued tech

Why I’m opting out of school-issued devices

Ask your child’s teacher about screens

Worried about school tech? Say something!

Advocacy and Activism for Parents Concerned About EdTech

We're harming education around the world

I tried to opt my kids out of school tech (and the school said "No.")

An update on my effort to opt-out of school-issued devices

Is school tech safe?

300 apps for a kindergartener?

6th-grader watches 15,673 YouTube videos during school

What Parents Can Do About EdTech

Finding Self-Harm Video on School Device

EdTech: The great failure of our generation

I don’t want my kids using tech in school (An Update)

Is our children’s data being trafficked by #edtech? Lawsuit filed!

I opted out of school-issued devices...

Should screens be rewards at school?

Opting out of EdTech: What Parents Can Do

The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech In Schools