Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

We have our tech free, hopefully home.

You have your tech free days if you need to.

When you support your kids with their learning, everything is offline.

You're taking notes offline, you're doing note cards offline, you're having discussions offline, you just make your home analog.

Now, as a group of parents, how do we push back?

That's when, if you go as one parent, so the easiest way to do it is through an opt-out, is you go to a school and you say, I would like to opt my child out of all non-essential tech use.

um vermont is about to pass a bill that makes that legal so once they do it everyone so soon it will be illegal in the us to say i do not want my kid using tech which is awesome if you can't get your voice heard one parent usually is seen as a nuisance if you're the one parent speaking up they're like yeah ignore that one but if you can get a small coalition even 10 10 parents together saying the same thing that's when they're going to have to listen and your biggest allies in this entire tech battle

And basically, PS, just be aware, all you're doing is asking for data.

That's it.

Just show me proof that this is working.

Show me proof that in any way this has helped my kid.

If you can, cool.

We're not asking for miracles, just evidence.

And no one's got it.

Your school especially won't have it.

So if they can't prove it, then we can start to step away.

But your biggest allies are going to be teachers.

So I've been working in education for a long time.

My estimate now is about 70% of teachers are done with tech.

They hate it.