Scott and Duane get together to chat about math, but Duane gets grumpy and jumps up on his soap box to complain about schools using too much EdTech throughout the day. We know students go home and endlessly scroll on their phones, so schools should be very picky and choosy about whether to add to the screen time at school. Also, the EdTech we use at school should augment the teacher rather than replace the teacher. Give this episode a listen and leave a comment.

Links mentioned in this episode:

✚  Parents push for reduced screen time a year after Los Angeles Unified bans cellphones

     https://edsource.org/2026/reducing-screen-time-lausd/755025 

✚  Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.

   https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them 

✚  The first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

    https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/  

✚  Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath testifies to US Senate about EdTech damaging our children

     https://www.commerce.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/media/doc/Horvath_Written%20Testimony.pdf  

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