No child should be fed the content I saw, by algorithm or content moderator. Today, October 26, 2021, on the heels of testimony a few weeks ago by Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower (as she will forever be known), members of Congress grilled executives from several other technology companies, including Snap, Inc. (Snapchat), TikTok, and YouTube. Senator Blumenthal, like so many experts in recent…

A Smoky Sky The ashy orange hue tinting the skies of Seattle this summer are distressing enough on their own as they signify the literal burning of the West. …

Emily Cherkin, M.A.Ed., is a tech-intentional parent, educator, speaker, and founder of The Screentime Consultant, LLC. Her work has been featured in local and national news including in The New York Times and on The Today Show (twice) and Good Morning, America. She can, ironically, be found on social media. …

If remote learning is breaking you, here are 8 things to do. If they don’t already, at the rate things are going, most children who are remote learning right now will hate learning by June. It’s not even October, and in the past twenty-four hours, three separate friends have reached…

(Even when it feels like we’re damned if we do, and damned if we don’t) Here in Seattle, the air quality index is the third worst in the world, behind only our neighbors to the north in Vancouver, B.C. and our neighbors to the south in Portland, Oregon, where the AQI broke records this weekend. This week, our school district held its first full week…

Add This To Your Fall To-Do List, Parents: Monitor Your Child’s Remote Learning Device for Porn and Violent Content. Because The School District Won’t. At age six, Charlie was excited that his school district, Eanes Independent School District, in Austin, TX, was issuing iPads for all its students. …

Five Ways to Help Your Kids Survive Remote Learning There is no question: as parents, we are heading into fall with tremendous uncertainty, particularly when it comes to our children’s education. Earlier this year, with the arrival of COVID-19, schools and families scrambled to connect remotely to classes and work. …

(Or why remote learning alone won’t save education) In response to COVID-19, schools across the country have scrambled to address learning via remote platforms. There is a wide range of what “learning from home” looks like, but the rush to remote learning, educational technology, and devices for all students fails to consider whether or not more technology is…