AI

LA Times, Google search AI deemed 'unacceptable risk' for kids

The New Yorker, What Will It Take To Get AI Out of Schools?

NY Times, AI Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12

Fast Company, AI impairs brain performance, problem-solving

NY Times, Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era

Benjamin Riley, The 50 Percent Problem: Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI

Negative Impacts

The Free Press, Jared Cooney Horvath, We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains

NY Times, Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’

Fortune, The first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

NY Times, The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education

After Babel, Amy Tyson, The False Promise of Device Based Education

CNN, Students learn less when they use tech. So why do schools keep giving kids devices?

Fortune, Tech billionaires are shielding their children from the products that made them rich

i-Ready

NBC News, The revolt against i-Ready

Jared Cooney Horvath, i-Ready: 13 Million Students, Zero Meaningful Evidence

Unheard, The plot to replace teachers with tech

Emily Cherkin and Annie Karabell, Beyond iReady: A future of human-centeredassessment, teaching, and learning

Large Evidence Studies

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Digital Dystopia: The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling

National Education Policy Center (NEPC), Time for a Pause - AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good

National Education Policy Center (NEPC), How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Surgeon General's Warning on Screen Use

National Institute of Health (NIH), Effects of Excessive Screen Time on Child Development

National Institute of Health (NIH), The hazards of excessive screen time

JAMA, Addictive Screen Use Trajectories and Suicidal Behaviors, Suicidal Ideation, and Mental Health in US Youths

Social Science Research Network, The Generative AI Learning Penalty

Other School District Policy Revisions

LAUSD - Guidelines for Student Screen Time Policy

Beverly Hills - Intentional Technology Use in the Classroom, Digital Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Education

Carroll, TX - Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Student Screen Time