As a new school year kicks off across North Dakota, student technology use is top of mind for education leaders and lawmakers with new policies being floated for the 2027 legislative session. Participants in a recent survey of more than 2,200 North Dakotans said they think technology access is important to supporting teaching and learning. […]
Kim Bleier understands why screens became “a huge piece of the educational narrative” in the darkest depths of the COVID-19 remote learning era. They were essential to education itself. But Bleier, a Concord High School social studies teacher, wishes students had left some of that technology behind when they returned to the classroom. Instead, the […]
WASHINGTON — State lawmakers across the nation are enacting legislation to restrict student screen time in classrooms, building on recent bipartisan momentum surrounding school cellphone bans.
(The Center Square) – The Los Angeles Unified School District has approved its 2026-2027 budget as well as screen time limits for students. The limits include a total ban on screen time for students until they reach the second grade.
The push to “protect” children from cell phones and social media is gaining momentum worldwide. As EU and Asian countries consider legal limits on minors’ access to social media, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled in a Los Angeles courtroom last week about whether his company’s popular apps, which include Facebook and Instagram, are addictive.
Nowadays, it seems we can be addicted to anything – not just alcohol and drugs, but pornography, random Internet browsing, video games, and smartphones. Academic research papers have investigated a wide range of other behaviors including gambling, but also “dance addiction,” “fishing addiction,” “milk tea addiction,” and “cat addiction.” One cheeky paper used the standard medical criteria to show young people are “addicted” to their real-life friends.
