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      <video:title>100 Years of EdTech: What History Can Teach Us About AI in Education</video:title>
      <video:description>Schools are moving rapidly toward artificial intelligence, but this is not the first time a new technology has been promoted as the future of learning. We are honored to welcome Danny Zeliger, an experienced high school English teacher, parent advocate, and compelling voice on education technology, AI, phones, and student learning. Danny has helped parents and educators in his local community think more critically about how technology affects reading, writing, attention, and childhood, and has presented to educators and school leaders on the history of education technology. Drawing on his own classroom experience, Danny will take us from the teaching machines of the 1920s to programs such as NoRedInk and iReady, and now to AI tutors and AI thought partners. What worked? What failed? And are we repeating old mistakes with much more powerful technology? Danny offers a powerful reframing: the growing pushback against education technology is not a pendulum swinging backward. It is a course correction toward what is right for our children. Who should decide what the future of education looks like?</video:description>
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      <video:description>Why video games, phones, and persuasive design are pulling children away from real life, and what parents can do. We are honored to welcome back Richard Freed, PhD, child and adolescent psychologist, author, father, and one of the leading national voices on children, screens, persuasive design, and mental health. Dr. Freed is the author of Better Than Real Life: The Secret Science Addicting Kids to Screens, and How to Save Childhood and Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age. His work has helped parents understand how Big Tech uses powerful psychological tools to capture children’s attention, reshape behavior, and pull kids away from real life. In this special webinar, we will focus on a critical and often underdiscussed angle: boys, video games, phones, and the urgent need for more fathers to step into this movement. A few weeks ago, we hosted Dr. Kara Alaimo for a powerful conversation on social media, women, and girls. This session turns to another urgent part of the story: how addictive technology, especially video games and phone based entertainment, is affecting family life, motivation, school, and childhood itself. This conversation will be co-moderated by Jill Anderson, M.A. Educational Psychology, educator, mom, and founder of Mindful Tech Lessons, whose work focuses on helping families navigate childhood in the digital age.</video:description>
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      <video:description>Catherine is the bestselling author of How to Break Up with Your Phone and coauthor with Jonathan Haidt of The Amazing Generation, the #1 New York Times bestseller written directly for kids and tweens. Inspired by the global impact of The Anxious Generation, The Amazing Generation powerful new book helps young people understand how phones and apps capture their attention, and how much freedom, fun, friendship, confidence, and real life they can reclaim by disconnecting. This conversation will focus on one of the most important questions parents face: How do we talk to our children about the impact of smartphones, gaming and social media in a way that they can embrace and relate to? How did this powerful nonfiction and graphic novel hybrid impact students? Join us for a powerful conversation about communicating adult concerns without fear, shame, or lectures, and helping children see that less time on screens can mean more life, more connection, and more freedom.</video:description>
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      <video:title>Dr. Alaimo on the Classroom Screen Crisis</video:title>
      <video:description>We are continuing our national webinar series on screens, education technology, phones, and childhood with a powerful conversation featuring Dr. Kara Alaimo. Dr. Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University, author of Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls, And How We Can Take It Back, and one of the clearest public voices on social media, screen time, children, families, and education. Since 2016, she has written opinion and analysis for CNN on how social media is reshaping our lives, especially the lives of women and girls. She speaks frequently with parents, teachers, and schools about how to navigate children’s social media use, and brings a rare combination of academic expertise, public policy experience, and real world communication insight from her work with the United Nations and the Obama administration. In her recent analysis, Dr. Alaimo asks the question many parents and educators are now asking: if screens often make it harder for students to learn, why are schools still giving children so much technology? This conversation will explore what school screen use may be doing to attention, learning, reading, writing, physical health, social development, and childhood itself. We will also discuss what parents, educators, and communities can do now to push for healthier, more human, more evidence based classrooms.</video:description>
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      <video:title>The Missing Voice: Teachers on Children, Screens, and School</video:title>
      <video:description>With our LMSD community discussion about screens, Chromebooks, school issued devices, and education technology now receiving attention nationally and internationally, we are discovering that the same questions are being asked in communities across the country. The people with some of the deepest insight into this issue are the educators who work with children every day. Teachers and school leaders see firsthand how screens and EdTech are affecting attention, learning, behavior, and school life. Yet their voices are often barely heard, especially compared with the depth of experience and perspective they bring! That is why this conversation matters. We need to listen to educators, not as an afterthought, but as essential voices in understanding what is happening to children in classrooms across the country. Join four experienced educators, each with more than 20 years of classroom and education experience, for a powerful national Zoom conversation grounded in what teachers are actually seeing with children every day. Featuring Jill Anderson, Randy Freiman, Randi Harris, and Dean Rosencranz</video:description>
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      <video:title>The Executive Function Crisis: Michael McLeod on EdTech and 1:1 Devices</video:title>
      <video:description>Join us for a powerful and timely conversation with Michael McLeod, who has helped hundreds of families better understand and address concerns related to EdTech, executive functioning, attention, and 1:1 devices, not only for children with ADHD and executive functioning challenges, but for the general student population as well. Michael is an award winning keynote speaker, award winning professional development trainer, co host of the ADHD Parenting Podcast, and author of The Executive Function Playbook and The Executive Function Playbook In Action. He speaks widely about the science and data showing how EdTech and 1:1 devices may interfere with the development of executive function skills, attention, and learning. Topics include: • How EdTech and 1:1 devices may interfere with executive function development • Why this matters not only for children with ADHD and learning differences, but for all children • What families and schools should understand about attention, regulation, and screen based learning • What parents, educators, and community leaders should be asking right now</video:description>
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      <video:title>The EdTech Backlash: Emily Cherkin on Screens and Childhood</video:title>
      <video:description>We’re excited to announce our third webinar in the series on educational technology and children! As more parents and educators begin questioning the digitization of childhood and the rapid expansion of screens in schools, this conversation feels more urgent than ever. Join us for a powerful discussion with Emily Cherkin, The Screentime Consultant, a parent, author, speaker, educator, and former teacher who has become one of the clearest voices in the country challenging the assumptions behind EdTech . Earlier this year, she testified before the U.S. Senate about the impact of technology on children and has been warning families and schools about the costs of overreliance on screens, AI, and digital platforms in childhood and education. Practical conversation for parents, educators, and community members about what has happened to childhood in the digital age, why so many families are rethinking EdTech, and what schools should be asking right now. Topics include * Why Emily says the digitization of childhood is going too far * The difference between Tech Ed and EdTech * Screens, AI, learning, and what children may be losing * Student privacy, data, and the business model behind classroom technology * What parents and educators should be asking schools now</video:description>
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      <video:title>Are Schools Caught in a Digital Delusion?</video:title>
      <video:description>Classroom technology is everywhere, Chromebooks, iPads, learning apps, and now AI tools. But are these tools actually helping kids learn, or are schools moving too fast without enough evidence? Join us for the second webinar in our education technology series with Jared Cooney Horvath, a cognitive neuroscientist, educator, and author of The Digital Delusion . He earned his master’s degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from the University of Melbourne, and has been speaking nationally, including recent events in Washington, DC, about learning, screens, and classroom technology. Practical and thought provoking conversation for parents, educators, and community members who want to better understand how children actually learn, what research says about screen based instruction, and why so many families are starting to question educational technology in schools. Jared’s recent work focuses on how classroom technology may be harming learning and what schools can do differently. Topics include * What neuroscience says about attention, memory, and learning * Whether classroom technology is improving outcomes * Why so many schools may be caught in a digital delusion * What parents and educators should be asking now</video:description>
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      <video:title>Technology in Classrooms: What Parents Should Know</video:title>
      <video:description>Educational technology is now part of everyday learning, but many families are not sure which tools are being used, what the evidence shows, or which questions to ask. Join us for a practical, parent friendly conversation to build shared understanding and open dialogue, with plenty of time for live Q&amp;A. Featured guest: Andy Liddell Attorney and advocate focused on educational technology, privacy, and student safeguards Principal, EdTech Law Center Andy works with schools and families on the real world questions that come up when technology, learning, and student privacy intersect. He has been invited to provide witness testimony in public hearings across the country and has become a leading voice for parents and educators who want to better understand educational technology. He has also been featured on podcasts and in media discussing these topics. This will be a live, interactive webinar with plenty of time for Q&amp;A. Topics include: - How educational technology is used in classrooms today - What research says about benefits and limitations - How student data and privacy are handled, including consent and safeguards - How schools approach content filtering and safety - AI in education, what is here now, what may be coming next</video:description>
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      <video:title>Beyond Screens: Building Brilliant Minds Without the Distraction</video:title>
      <video:description>👤 Dr. Asya Sigelman Founder and Head of School, Main Line Classical Academy (MLCA) in Bryn Mawr Associate Professor of Ancient Greek, Bryn Mawr College , and a widely respected scholar and educator MLCA is a classical K–12 school built around books, seminar-style discussion, deep attention, and real human connection, with minimal use of screens Across America, states and school districts are joining a growing movement! Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) just adopted a districtwide bell-to-bell smartphone policy, joining many other PA districts that have already done the same. NJ lawmakers just approved a statewide bell-to-bell school phone ban bill, now headed to Governor Murphy’s desk, adding even more momentum. Earlier this month, the PA Senate Education Committee advanced bell-to-bell legislation with a unanimous bipartisan vote, which is exceedingly rare. All of these policies include common sense exceptions including IEP and 504 plans. Thousands of families are searching for a different way. No screens as the default. No constant distractions. Just curious kids, expert teachers, and real human connection. Meet the visionary behind Main Line Classical Academy! 💡 What You’ll Discover: * Why she built a school without educational technology, and why it is working * What students gain when screens disappear, all day, not just in class * How this connects to the national awakening about focus, learning, and well-being * A vision you can bring to your family, your school, and you</video:description>
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      <video:title>Phones Out, Focus In: Transforming Classrooms with Evidence</video:title>
      <video:description>National webinar with Professor Alp Sungu from Wharton, who led the largest global study on school phone bans. His research shows how keeping phones out of classrooms improves focus, learning, and calm. The Times (UK) published a new piece about his work and the wave of schools now banning smartphones across Britain: 👉 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/head-teachers-government-ban-smartphones-schools-d0p6k6nf0</video:description>
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      <video:title>Healthy Hearts, Screens, and Limiting Social Media for Teens</video:title>
      <video:description>Special international webinar with two Denmark researchers on screens, youth heart risk, and Denmark’s family guidelines. Timely, the prime minister just backed limits on kids’ social media. https://newsroom.heart.org/news/excessive-screen-time-among-youth-may-pose-heart-health-risks</video:description>
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      <video:title>Kids and Screens: A Wake-Up Call for Parents with Michael McLeod</video:title>
      <video:description>Michael McLeod is a nationally recognized ADHD and executive function specialist, former speech-language pathologist, and founder of GrowNOW ADHD . He has worked with thousands of children, families, and schools, and has seen firsthand how smartphones, social media, and screens affect attention, learning, and mental health. Michael has shared his expertise on podcasts, contributed commentary and articles, and participated in collaborative research and professional forums that inform best practices for schools and families. Learn more about Michael here: https://www.grownowadhd.com/ And listen to his popular podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xATyVhNZU3abIejNIggvD In this powerful session, you’ll learn: 🔹 Why smartphones and social media act like a dangerous drug for developing brains, 🔹 What Michael has observed in homes and classrooms across the country, 🔹 Practical, evidence-informed strategies parents and educators can use to reclaim focus and well-being, 🔹 How to partner with schools and communities to support healthier tech habits for kids 👉 Don’t miss this chance to hear from a leading practitioner who brings clinical insights into real-world solutions for families and schools.</video:description>
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      <video:title>Why Kids Can't Put Down Their Phones: The Power of Persuasive Design with Dr. Richard Freed</video:title>
      <video:description>Kick off the school year with an essential conversation featuring Richard Freed, PhD, child and adolescent psychologist, author, and one of the most influential voices of our time on kids, tech, and mental health . In his clinical practice, Dr. Freed has witnessed first-hand the dramatic changes brought by smartphones and social media, and he has become a leading national advocate for reclaiming childhood from Big Tech. He is the author of two acclaimed books: - Better Than Real Life: The Secret Science Addicting Kids to Screens, and How to Save Childhood (2025) , exposing how Silicon Valley uses persuasive design to hook kids and pull them away from real life. - Wired Child: Reclaiming Childhood in a Digital Age (2015) , exploring the impact of screen-saturated lives on children’s health, well-being, and learning. Dr. Freed’s insights have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other major outlets. He also serves on advisory boards for the Screen Time Action Network, Families Managing Media, and Wait Until 8th. In this timely webinar, you’ll learn: - How persuasive design targets children’s attention and behavior - Why social media is especially harmful, as shown in newly exposed META documents from just days ago (https://www.pcworld.com/article/2879543) - Why traditional parenting advice often falls short in the digital age - Practical strategies for parents to reduce screen distractions at home and in schools</video:description>
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