New Data Exposes the School Tech Crisis (with Titania Jordan)

When schools hand children Chromebooks, iPads, Google accounts, and Microsoft Teams access, what’s really happening behind the screen?

In this eye-opening conversation, Titania Jordan joins Nicki Petrossi to reveal alarming new data from Bark Technologies’s monitoring of school-issued technology used by millions of students across the U.S.

The findings are staggering:

• 12% of children encountered cyberbullying 
• 3.74% encountered instances of depression
• 7.46% encountered discussion or content related to suicidal ideation, imminent suicide or self-harm
• 39.83% of students encountered violent content
• 22% were exposed to drug-related content
• 10.77% encountered sexual content
• 11.64% encountered medically-concerning content
• 2.69% encountered hate speech
• 0.23% encountered body image content
• 1.79% encountered anxiety-related content

They discuss how students are using Google Docs like disappearing-message apps, why schools are struggling to keep up, and what parents can do right now to better protect their children.

This episode is a wake-up call for parents, educators, school administrators, and policymakers about the unintended consequences of putting addictive, poorly protected technology into children’s hands.

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