Krishnan asks how DOE defines screen time; Giunta clarifies active instructional use

Thank you.

And I want to come back to that issue in a second.

Just a couple clarifying questions.

So when we say 30 minutes of screen time or 45 minutes of screen time, how are you all defining screen time?

Is it active instructional use for an educational benefit?

Is it passive use where the students are messing around on the computers?

What defines that 30 to 40 minutes of screen time?

Because that wasn't clear in the policy, but I obviously think those two are very different uses of screens.

Yes, thank you.

We want active.

If we're going to be using digital devices, technology in our classrooms, it needs to be intentional, active, not passive.

We don't want to see kids on a one-to-one device isolated for all the reasons that everybody's opening statement spoke to today.

We want it to be very intentional around this tool is critical to the need of this learning target or this instructional moment that we're having in the class.

And that is how we are defining the 30 minutes of use.

And also, we're clear to say, like, the routine use.

We don't want anything to be a routine use of a digital device in the school.

So the permitted screen time, whatever the allowable amount is, should be active instructional screen time.

Absolutely.

Got it.