Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse is Making Our Kids Dumber

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Joe Clement Matt Miles

Screen Schooled

Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse is Making Our Kids Dumber

Joe Clement, Matt Miles

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Black Inc
29 January 2018

Social issues & processes; Educational strategies & policy; Ethical & social aspects of computing

Over the past decade, educational instruction has become increasingly digitized as schools rush to dole out laptops and iPads to every student. Yet the most important question, Is this what is best for students? is glossed over.

Veteran teachers Joe Clement and Matt Miles have seen firsthand how damaging technology overuse and misuse has been to our kids. On a mission to educate and empower parents, they show how screen saturation at home and school has created a wide range of cognitive and social deficits in our young people. They lift the veil on what's really going on? in schools- teachers who are often powerless to curb distractions from electronic devices; zoned-out kids who act helpless and are unfocused, unprepared, and unsocial; administrators who are influenced by questionable science sponsored by corporate technology purveyors. Clement and Miles suggest steps parents can take to demand change? and they make a compelling case for simpler, smarter, more effective forms of teaching and learning.

By: Joe Clement, Matt Miles
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 374g
ISBN: 9781863959995
ISBN 10: 1863959998
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 29 January 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. These Kids Today 2. The Myth of the Technology-Enhanced Superkid 3. Reclaiming Your Child's Ability to Think 4. Learning to Focus in the High-tech World of Distraction 5. Escaping the Digital World of Anxiety 6. Re-establishing Support from Home 7. Revitalizing Social Interaction 8. Technology Is Widening-Not Closing-the Achievement Gap 9. The Educational-Industrial Complex 10. The Ideal Education in a Modern World