Education technology—including school districts’ 1-to-1 computing initiatives—impedes students’ ability to learn and offers a portal to platforms that harm children’s mental health, experts told ...

Hugh Grant, floppy-haired British rom-com star. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, conservative firebrand with presidential aspirations. Oprah Winfrey, one-woman media empire. All have used their megawatt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When school districts sign contracts for educational technology, they typically buy a set number of licenses. The software company ...

School districts spent billions on technology during the pandemic, but now some states are limiting in-school screen time because of concerns about its impact on children. Nationwide schools invested ...

From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children. Sandra Martinez Roe, with her son, is a leader of a Los Angeles parents’ group ...

Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University and advises parents, students and teachers on how to manage screen time. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is ...

For the last decade, every kindergartener and first-grader in Summit School District has received an iPad. Silverthorne Elementary School Principal Maddie Johnson wants to change that. At the end of ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to go virtual, students suddenly needed to have their own laptops or tablets in order to interact with teachers and complete ...

Australia’s education ministers are increasingly asking if there is too much screen time in schools. Phones are already banned or restricted in every public school around the country. And Victoria has ...

Putting technology into schools was sold as a revolution that would help kids learn. But as tech companies exert greater influence, many are now wondering if screen time is doing more harm than good.

Schools across the country have invested billions of dollars in tablets, laptops, and high-speed internet with the expectation that more technology means better learning. But what does the research ...