The EdTech Revolution Has Failed

The article doesn't match the conclusion. The buried lede: procrastinating with the Internet is easier than procrastinating without the Internet.

If you care about your kids, control their access to the brain rotting aspects of technology like a tyrant.

I sympathize with this goal, but I'm not seeing what to do instead of screens for kids. I've been looking, hard. Suburbia makes this really hard. try getting three kids to sports with two working parents, and thats only half the time you're trying to fill. Try to get any kind of regular playtime with other families who are busier than you. We kid ourselves we're keeping them off of algorithms, but craft materials only take them so far, and the rest will be filled with TV and video games when we are stuck working.

The article is pretty supportive of the conclusion. Reductively, EdTech is putting screens in front of kids at school. Doing that leads to distraction and procrastination than using those screens for learning.

When my daughter was 11 she tiled our bathroom. Now she's 16 and talking about what tools she wants to add to the workshop. Kids are tiny adults, you just need to enable them.