PAA's EdTech reports in the news
Education Week blogger Benjamin Herold reported on PAA's challenge to EdTech: "Citing threats to children's health and well-being from rising screen time, increased testing and data collection, and what some view as misguided teaching strategies, the advocacy group Parents Across America today called on school districts and states to be 'far more cautious, diligent, transparent, and accountable about their technology decisions.' "While the group is not against the 'appropriate' use of technology in schools, "' are speaking out for balanced, healthy classrooms for our children,' said Laura Bowman, head of the group's Roanoke, Va. chapter, in a statement.
" 'We strongly oppose the push to increase student screen time, replace teachers with packaged lessons delivered by digital devices, and continuously test students, data-mining the results,' Bowman said.
"Among the documents issued by PAA are:
- A list of reports describing technology's potentially harmful effects on everything from students' emotional well-being to their vision;
- A list of recommendations for legislators and education policymakers;
- A breakdown of ed-tech "buzzwords" (many of which will be quite familiar to regular readers of this blog.)"
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