The Digital Delusion
How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids' Learning, and How to Help Them Thrive Again
Ryan's Take
Ryan cited this book on Cowboy State Daily to make the case that cognitive erosion is real and measurable. Horvath's argument, that classroom technology has coincided with a genuine decline in kids' cognitive ability, is one of the sharpest data-backed challenges to the idea that more screens automatically means more learning.
About the Book
Neuroscientist and educator Jared Cooney Horvath dismantles the core myths driving the classroom-technology movement. Drawing on decades of neuroscience and education research, he ties the long decline in student test scores to the rush to put a laptop or tablet in front of every child, and argues that this generation is measurably less capable cognitively as a result. The book offers a practical playbook for putting people, not programs, back at the center of learning.
