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Best Of: Doug Lemov on Cellphones in Schools

Best Of: Doug Lemov on Cellphones in Schools

FromThe Report Card with Nat Malkus


Best Of: Doug Lemov on Cellphones in Schools

FromThe Report Card with Nat Malkus

ratings:
Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Oct 18, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Note: This episode originally aired in September 2022.On this episode of The Report Card, Nat speaks with Doug Lemov about how cellphones and social media harm the academic and social development of students and make schools less inclusive. Nat and Doug also discuss online learning, school choice, the difficulty of creating schools with a coherent operating philosophy, the state of public schooling, The Scarlet Letter, the pandemic's effects on students, teacher professional development, the relationship between parenting and schooling, the idea that schooling sometimes has to be hard for students, and the role that schools play in shaping students' habits of attention.Doug Lemov is the author of Reconnect: Building School Culture for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging and Teach Like a Champion.Show Notes:Take Away Their CellphonesReconnect: Building School Culture for Meaning, Purpose, and BelongingTeach Like A Champion 3.0Teach Like A ChampioniGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of UsIt Was a Mistake to Let Kids Onto Social Media Sites. Here’s What to Do Now.
Released:
Oct 18, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Report Card with Nat Malkus is the education podcast of the American Enterprise Institute. It is a hub for discussing innovative work to improve education – from early childhood to higher education – and the lives of America’s children. It evaluates research, policy, and practice efforts to improve the lives of families, schools and students. The Report Card seeks to engage with everyone who is interested in education in an accessible way. It brings guests that are doing compelling work across a spectrum from high level policy changes to innovations at the classroom level, work that will start conversations about improving education and the lives of children more broadly. Each episode lets listeners – policymakers, teachers, and parents –learn relevant information that they can use in their efforts to improve education.