Schools face a digital reckoning as classrooms reconsider daily screen use

Classrooms lean into analog learning in the AI era

Parents, educators and lawmakers are pushing schools to curb classroom screen use amid concerns about student attention, behavior and learning.Why it matters: School cellphone bans are expanding into broader efforts to limit screen use and establish guardrails around AI in education.The big picture: At least 16 states — both red and blue — have introduced bills to limit classroom technology.Case in point: Schools Beyond Screens formed with fewer…

Schools face a digital reckoning as classrooms reconsider daily screen use

After years of rapidly expanding classroom technology, a growing conversation is beginning to ask whether students are spending too much time on screens during the school day, with some calling the sudden pause a “digital reckoning.”