Emily Cherkin, The Screentime Consultant

16+ Ways EdTech Harms Children If EdTech doesn't educate, what does it do?

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"EdTech" is *Not* "Tech Ed" What So Many Get So Wrong About Technology in School and the 3 Questions We Should Be Asking

A common misconception— EdTech is NOT Tech Ed.

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Really enjoyed the webinar, Jason. You said so many things that resonated and made me feel a lot less crazy. If you're interested, I'm the lead plaintiff in a class action case against PowerSchool. I'd love to talk. edtech.law/cases/powers...

iPads Do Not Belong in School 6 Fallacies About EdTech and 6 Ideas for a Tech-Intentional™ School.

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Big Tobacco Makes State University Its Vaping Training Ground [SATIRE] When we replace "GenAI" with "vaping" the absurdity of GenAI (as it is currently used) in education becomes clear and extremely uncomfortable.

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Resisting GenAI in Education. It's time for mass refusal, folks.

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5 Organizations Who Take $$$ From Tech That You Should Know About And why this makes it really hard to trust their advice, unfortunately.

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My Top 5 Favorite Resources re: EdTech These are the ones I print off and carry with me-- they're that good.

I’m writing at First Fish Chronicles on Substack now. Swim on over! Here’s a top 5 favorite resources post to start things off:
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I Am Disinclined to Acquiesce to Your Request (Means “No.”) - The Screentime Consultant This essay argues parents should refuse EdTech, 1:1 devices, and AI tools in schools. Resignation is not progress; parents have the power to say 'no'.

Why saying no to AI in schools means saying no to EdTech. My hot take. Please share if you feel inclined.

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Not more Amplify!!!

Love it…and so strange that EVERY day at school was once this.

Thank you Anne!! Your writing has been invaluable in keeping the fire lit beneath me!

I’ve seen how big tech has transformed the classroom – and parents are right to be worried | Velislava Hillman I’ve examined how commercial technologies reshape education – often in ways parents instinctively resist, but are told to ignore, says academic Velislava Hillman

I’ve seen how big tech has transformed the classroom – and parents are right to be worried | Velislava Hillman

Something wicked this way comes Big Tech CEOs, education policymakers, and universities continue to push AI upon students

"We need stop pretending that generative AI tools are doing anything other than acting as a substitute for the effortful thinking that we want students to be undertaking so as to build their own knowledge, in their own heads, in their own minds."

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Event | Let's Talk EdTech: In Conversation and Connection with Emily Cherkin, and Colin Samuel Join Emily Cherkin M.Ed., and Colin Anton Samuel, CTO at the Brearley School as we discuss what Educaction Technology can and should look like in schools.

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Kids Are in Crisis. Could Chatbot Therapy Help?

There are some really weird things going on in this NYT story that is purportedly about using "AI" for child therapy. Would you care to join me for a short thread exploring just a few of them?

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EdTech Company PowerSchool Target of Lawsuit Over Claims They Illegally Sell Student Data | Law Commentary Former School teacher, Emily Cherkin, has filed a lawsuit against leading educational technology giant, PowerSchool. She filed her class action lawsuit in San Francisco this past spring and claims tha...

Teacher vs. Tech Giant

Former teacher Emily Cherkin is suing PowerSchool, claiming the ed-tech giant sells students data without consent. With data from 440+ school districts, the lawsuit alleges PowerSchool profits from sharing sensitive info like grades and health records.

Or in k-12.

As I've been saying over and over on our book tour for The AI Con, the inevitability argument (including in the form of "AI is here to stay") is an attempt to steal our agency. We don't have to accept that and I encourage everyone to refuse it.

@emilymbender.bsky.social are you aware of the use of AI in Seattle Public schools? ChatGPT is available to all students. I’m exploring ways to resist.

So why do our kids "need" access to these products to be successful in the future? Isn't our children's use of their products benefiting 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 success, not our children's?

They didn't use any of the same products they foist on our children today, and they seem to have done just fine.

These same tech giants send their own children to nature-based, low-tech schools.

The continued refrain of "kids need to have access to technology now so they can be successful in the future" just simply doesn't make sense when you look at the childhoods of some of the wealthiest, most powerful, most successful titans of the tech industry.

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

Not all change is progress: Children and democracy have long needed the same things to flourish - The Screentime Consultant Emily Cherkin M.Ed. on why resisting EdTech in schools protects both childhood and democracy. Not all change is progress. Screen time isn't the answer.

New essay.

Not all change is progress.

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Breathtaking. Wow.