Hugh Grant hosts EdTech Q&A with Jonathan Haidt and Sophie Winkleman

Part 3 of 3 - Why educators must unite with parents to roll back the Phone Based Childhood and Screen Based School Day.

A conversation about EdTech with Jonathan Haidt, Hugh Grant and Sophie Winkleman, hosted by Close Screens Open Minds.

In this Q&A with parents, schools and educators, Hugh Grant talks about the eternal, exhausting and depressing battle with screens and children. The last thing pupils and parents need, Hugh says, is for schools to give lessons and homework on devices.

We have speeches from our American friends, Emily Cherkin aka The Screentime Consultant and Julie Liddell from the EdTech Law Centre. They point out two major concerns:

1) The business model of EdTech is the same as BigTech: time on device. It is an independently unproven way to learn.

2) There are laws that protect our privacy, our property, our health and well being. Yet EdTech uses student data and sells it and, in return, our kids get a worse education.

The discussion goes onto query why EdTech is being introduced into schools and what can we do about it.

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