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Teachers Union Chief Demands Screen Bans and AI Curbs in Elementary Classrooms

WebProNews·Juan Vasquez·4 months ago
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Randi Weingarten has seen enough. The president of the American Federation of Teachers stood at the National Press Club in Washington on May 27 and laid out a blunt 10-point plan. Devices down. Eyes up. Hands on. Young children, she argued, are drowning in tech. Classwork on laptops distracts them. Grades slip. Social skills erode. The solution? No screens for prekindergarten through second grade. No student-facing AI tools in elementary schools. No social companion chatbots for anyone under 16. Real human beings, not robots. The proposal marks a sharp turn for the union that represents 1.8 million educators. Just last year the AFT partnered with OpenAI and Anthropic to train teachers on AI. Now Weingarten wants guardrails, research and taxes on the companies driving the change. But she stopped short of total rejection. “I am not calling for an AI ban or a Chromebook bonfire,” she said.…

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