Protecting Our Kids' Attention in a Screen-Filled Classroom | Jackie Mader (Bonus Episode)

When did technology stop being a learning tool and quietly become the learning environment?

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• Jackie's Resource:
• Early Childhood newsletter signup: https://hechingerreport.org/earlychildhood/
• Reporting on school technology: "IPads in kindergarten, YouTube videos at snack time: Parents are pushing back on screens in the early grades"
• "Schools try to block kids from accessing dangerous content and games online. Little kids are outsmarting them."
• "Many game sites evade school web filters"
• All stories: https://hechingerreport.org/author/jackie-mader/
• Connect with Jackie
• Instagram

About Jackie |

Jackie Mader is a senior early childhood reporter at The Hechinger Report. She previously worked as a special education teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, and trained new teachers in Mississippi. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, USA Today, TIME, and NBC News, among others, and has won several awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Nellie Bly Award from The New York Press Club, and a Front Page Award from The Newswomen’s Club of New York. She has been a fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and a Spencer Fellow at Columbia University. She received a bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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