The Education Gadfly Show

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Can schools escape the digital delusion? | Episode 1026 of The Education Gadfly Show

Can schools escape the digital delusion? | Episode 1026 of The Education Gadfly Show15 Jul42 min

David Griffith talks with neuroscientist and educator Jared Cooney Horvath, author of The Digital Delusion, about whether schools have put too much faith in classroom technology. They discuss what the evidence says about screen-based instruction, why school-sanctioned devices and platforms deserve more scrutiny, and whether artificial intelligence is making the ed-tech problem better or worse. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber Northern reviews a new study on Texas’s Teacher Incentive Allotm...