We spend our episode focused on a recently published article by Natasha Singer in the New York Times, “Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones.” Before diving in, we recap our recent spring break and Easter travel adventures. And it turns out Helen’s daughter is no fan of the Easter Bunny. The article features a public middle school principal in Kansas, Mrs. Inge Esping, and her decision to eliminate her school’s 1:1 student Chromebook program this school year. We talk through the challenges teachers who have spent years using certain tech platforms to build their class materials may face and what it really looks like to renorm technology use in the classroom. We talk through ways districts can be more tech-intentional by sharing a resource developed by ScreenStrong: “Seven Core Values for Using Technology in the Classroom.” One thing Helen loved from the article was how reducing tech in the classroom led to students finding “old school” ways of being ornery, like sticking paper darts in the ceiling! We end the episode with Jordan sharing a 3rd grade, hand-written essay she recently discovered about her vision for Americas’s future.

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Follow along with the episode by reading the NYT article on Chromebook remorse, reviewing the ScreenStrong Seven Core Values document and the Granville County Public Schools playbook, checking out the Phone Free Schools Report, catching up with our local news on tech use in a nearby school, and fact-checking Jordan on students' off-task behavior statistics :)

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