Screen schooled : two veteran teachers expose how technology overuse is making our kids dumber / Joe Clement, Matt Miles.

Includes index.

These kids today -- The myth of the technology-enhanced superkid -- Reclaiming your child's ability to think -- Learning to focus in the high-tech world of distraction -- Escaping the digital world of anxiety -- Reestablishing support from home -- Revitalizing social interaction -- Technology is widening--not closing--the achievement gap -- The education-industrial complex -- Ideal education in a modern world.

"Over the past decade, educational instruction has become increasingly digitized as districts rush to dole out laptops and iPads to every student. Yet the most important question, "Is this what is best for students?" is glossed over. Veteran teachers Joe Clement and Matt Miles have seen firsthand how damaging technology overuse and misuse has been to our kids. On a mission to educate and empower parents, they show how screen saturation at home and school has created a wide range of cognitive and social deficits in our young people. They lift the veil on what's really going on in schools: teachers who are often powerless to curb cell phone distractions; zoned-out kids who act helpless and are unfocused, unprepared, and unsocial; administrators who are influenced by questionable science sponsored by corporate technology purveyors. They provide action steps parents can take to demand change and make a compelling case for simpler, smarter, more effective forms of teaching and learning"-- Provided by publisher.

"Clement and Miles provide many real-world examples and cite multiple studies showing how technology use has created a wide range of cognitive and social deficits in our young people. They provide action steps parents and teachers can take to demand change and make a compelling case for simpler, smarter, more effective forms of teaching and learning"-- Provided by publisher.