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From the WSJ, March 15, 2025: Of students who reported using AI, nearly 40% of those in middle and high schools said they employed it without teachers’ permission to complete assignments, according to a survey last year by Impact Research. Among college students who use AI, the figure was nearly half. An internal analysis published by OpenAI said ChatGPT was frequently used by college students to help write papers.
“This is a gigantic public experiment that no one has asked for,” said Marc Watkins, assistant director of academic innovation at the University of Mississippi. In a related article a New Jersey student quit illicit AI use for her senior year. “I have tried to take a step back,” she said, “and use my brain.”
From American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: On average, children ages 8-12 in the United States spend 4-6 hours a day watching or using screens, and teens spend up to 9 hours.
I have provided the link for you to read the entire AACAP report and specifically the 18 negative outcomes including sleep problems, lower grades in school, substance use, weight problems and mood problems. https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/FFF-Guide/Children-And-Watching-TV-054.aspx
According to the CDC: High levels of screen time have been linked with adverse health outcomes, including poor sleep habits, fatigue, and symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Here we are in this BRAVE NEW WORLD where AI is invading our classrooms in addition to screen time isolating our children, rewiring their brains and increasing anxiety. This is not a conspiracy theory, this is fact from the left, the right, the up and the down. What to do?
- Remove screens from the classroom (our kids have plenty of screen time outside the classroom)
- Teach cursive
- All assignments handwritten
- All test answers handwritten (test questions printed and available for parents to view)
- Phonics in reading is a MUST
- Basic math mastery with no rope a dope of “new math” confusion
- Vo-tech in high schools, which is a positive trend beginning to take hold.
From The Christian Post in 2011, Google executive Alan Eagle……told the New York Times,“I fundamentally reject the notion you need technology aids in grammar school.”…”The idea that an app on an iPad can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that’s ridiculous.” Eagle went on to say, …At Google and all these places, we make technology as brain-dead easy to use as possible.” (emphasis added)
That pretty well sums up our current education model, brain-dead.
Do we stand and wring our hands in dismay or are we going to be the adults in the room and demand the addictive electronic devices must be put on ice in OUR children’s classrooms at least until 9th grade, then sparingly. Technology as tools, yes…crutches, no. God help us!
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