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Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber

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A call to arms for parents and teachers everywhere about the overuse of screens in schools and the devastating effect on our kids.

ISBN-13: 9781863959995

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Black Inc.

Publication Date: 02-06-2018

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x (d)

Joe Clement and Matt Miles are award-winning teachers, coaches, and mentors with a combined thirty years’ experience improving the education of young people. They run the blog PaleoEducation.com and their writing has been featured in Psychology Today and the Washington Post. They are both parents and live in Northern Virginia.

What People are Saying About This

Author of Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids—and How to Break the Trance - Dr. Nicholas Kardaras

“Bravo to Joe Clement and Matt Miles, two savvy and experienced teachers, for masterfully pulling back the veil of the tech-in- the-classroom hoax.”

Bestselling author of Sweet Poison and Free Schools - David Gillespie

"Clement and Miles succinctly lay out the compelling evidence against filling our classrooms with weapons of mass distraction and then tell us how to fix the damage already inflicted. This book is mandatory reading for teachers and parents alike."

Professor of Neurology at George Washington University - Richard E. Cytowic

"A sobering exposure of the damage wrought by constant screen exposure on developing brains. These veteran teachers refute the over–promised claims of Ed–Tech peddlers, and show us why screens undermine learning and leave kids unable to think on their own."

Author of Mind Change - Susan Greenfield

"An urgent wake-up call for anyone interested in how screen use in schools is damaging kids and education."

Author of Wired Child - Dr. Richard Freed

"With striking clarity, Screen Schooled reveals why an education increasingly centered around digital devices is failing our children. Two veteran teachers, Clement and Miles, expertly illuminate the need to teach kids problem solving, critical thinking, and other skills demanded in today’s economy. Get this must-read book!"

Table of Contents


  • Introduction
  • 1. These Kids Today

  • 2. The Myth of the Technology-Enhanced Superkid

  • 3. Reclaiming Your Child’s Ability to Think

  • 4. Learning to Focus in the High-tech World of Distraction

  • 5. Escaping the Digital World of Anxiety

  • 6. Re-establishing Support from Home

  • 7. Revitalizing Social Interaction

  • 8. Technology Is Widening—Not Closing—the Achievement Gap

  • 9. The Educational-Industrial Complex

  • 10. The Ideal Education in a Modern World