Krishnan cites research on screen harms and big tech profiteering in schools
Krishnan highlights studies showing digital devices disrupt student focus, cites Google admitting YouTube is unsafe and distracting, and criticizes big tech companies profiting from millions in school contracts while accessing student data.
Parents, teachers, and advocates are rightly concerned that the use of ed tech products in our schools has become excessive and is distracting students from actual learning and undermining our teachers in the classroom when our students are distracted.
Studies have shown that digital devices disrupt student focus.
In fact, Google, that owns YouTube, has openly admitted that YouTube is, quote, unsafe and distracting.
End quote.
Not to mention the health effects, disrupted sleep cycles, decrease in social coping skills, and eye strain.
All while big tech companies profit.
These massive companies are being awarded millions of dollars.
of dollars in contracts, gaining access to critical student data while still being vulnerable to security breaches, and creating future customers for themselves.
In one breath, these billion-dollar companies are telling us that our kids will fall behind without their technology and then selling us their latest upgrade.
All of this at a time when there's an entire national conversation raging about the need for government regulation of AI, around the mental health and addictive harms of social media, not just on adolescents, but on us as adults.
Meanwhile, ed tech is trying to import all of their products into the classroom to addict children early on in their education, from elementary school all the way through high school and beyond.