Is Tech Making Our Kids Less Capable? With Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

Welcome to Intelligent Squared, where great minds meet. I'm senior producer Mia Sarrenti. Schools have embraced laptops, apps and now artificial intelligence in the hope of improving education. But what if some of these technologies are making it harder for children to learn? In today's episode

Doctor Jared Cooney Holfar. Cognitive neuroscientist, author and former teacher joins Connor Boyle to discuss his new book, The Digital Delusion, and the evidence around screens and schools, attention, deep reading, and the growing use of AI in education. Let's join our host Conor Boyle now with more. Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm your host, Connor Boyle, and I'm delighted to be here today with Dr. Jared Cooney Horbat, neuroscientist, educator, and best-selling author whose new book is The Digital Delusion, How Classroom Technology Harms Our Children's Learning, and How to Help Them Thrive Again. Jared, welcome to Intelligence Word.

Thank you so much for having me on. Well, let's start with uh the big question. What is the digital delusion from your perspective? S so uh we've got this mistaken assumption that technology equals learning. So there's been a big movement since around twenty ten in earnest. To get more and more what we call ed tech, educational technology, into classrooms. The idea being it's gonna

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