The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning—and How to Help Them Thrive Again by Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath — an urgent, research-driven reckoning with the role of screens in our classrooms.
Our children are struggling. Schools once built around human connection are now dominated by laptops, tablets, and digital tools. The results are clear: declining performance, fractured attention, and the erosion of deep thinking. For the first time in recent history, many children are falling behind previous generations on key measures of cognitive development.
Neuroscientist, educator, and former teacher Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath reveals why the widespread adoption of classroom technology is undermining how children learn. Drawing on decades of research, he shows that students who spend extensive time on computers at school often score significantly lower on international assessments, that on-screen reading encourages shallow skimming over deep comprehension, and that the core promises of EdTech remain largely unmet.
The Digital Delusion dismantles the myths driving the multi-hundred-billion-dollar education technology industry and offers practical strategies for parents, teachers, and school leaders. This is not a call to reject technology entirely. It is a clear, evidence-based case for putting people — not programs — back at the center of education, and for restoring the conditions that allow real learning to thrive.
Essential reading for anyone concerned ab
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