Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom.

Despite warnings from early childhood experts against too much screen time, schools' reliance on educational technology for grade levels as low as transitional kindergarten has grown — and frustrated ...

CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — A few months before her daughter started kindergarten, Claire Benoist saw a Facebook post that stunned her. Another family with an incoming kindergartner was wondering if it ...

Last fall, I was contacted by a reader who was so concerned about the pervasive use of screens in their young child’s classroom, they had pulled their child out of their local school district. The ...

Laptop note taking has become increasingly prevalent in the classroom over the years, but this might not actually be the best option. According to a 2021 study, university students who take notes on a ...

A nationally representative Education Week survey found that 56 percent of educators believe that “off-task behavior on laptops, tablets, or desktops is a major source of distraction that cuts into ...

Why Grandma and Grandpa can’t seem to stop scrolling.

A teacher with more than a decade of classroom experience shared her concern about what she sees as a growing lack of ...

Baltimore City Schools’ top educator is pushing a serious pullback on screen time for the district’s youngest learners, calling for kindergarten through second grade to get only short, focused tablet ...

Parents lead a rebellion against EdTech, opting out of school-issued devices to prioritize human teaching over screens.