How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning – and How to Help Them Thrive Again
Interview with Jared Cooney Horvath about his book The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning – and How to Help Them Thrive Again. Argues that increasing digital technology use in schools correlates with a reversal of the Flynn Effect – a decline in children’s cognitive abilities. Explains how screens impede memory by lacking three-dimensional location and fostering skimming over deep learning. Prolonged screen exposure inhibits the brain’s capacity to simulate experiences, a key benefit of long-form reading. Advocates for strict controls on technology in classrooms, emphasising that one-to-one computer learning is detrimental to cognitive development and advocating for a return to structured, purpose-driven tech use.
