Actually, it seems to me two trends are happening simultaneously in K-12 up through college:
- Amped-up, accelerated, evangelistic, AI-adopting all-tech-all-the-time boosterism;
- Decelerating, questioning, skeptical, data-based informal, pedagogical, and legal moves to remove screens, phones, and AI from educational and worship spaces
Sometimes these are two parallel lines, and never the twain shall meet. But sometimes they coexist within a single institution (like my own, and most of higher-ed), and it’s jarring when they crash into each other—because each thinks its own side is ‘the right side of history’ while thinking the other side is self-evidently bad, stuck in the past, and unwilling to face facts.
And that’s where things stand.