Truth to Power | Emily Cherkin | Tech-Intentional Schools | 3-28-25

On this week's 8th Anniversary Pledge Drive edition of the program, we bring you an eye-opening community conversation held on March 18th at the Filson Historical Society in Old Louisville entitled "Tech-Intentional™ Schools Are the Future. Why it matters, what it looks like, and how it works!" Join us as we hear from a former classroom teacher, Emily Cherkin, aka The Screentime Consultant, who has spent many years working with parents, schools, and families in her quest to build a more tech-intentional world. Brains haven’t changed; technology has. Children haven’t changed; childhood has. In an era when young people’s mental health has prompted a Surgeon General’s warning, the average 8-year-old spends over seven hours per day on screens (outside of school), and schools regularly dole out iPads to kindergartners, how can we prepare children for a future that grows more technological by the day while preserving and protecting the skills and experiences we know children need to thrive? The answer is by reshaping schools using a Tech-intentional™ framework. As part of the Theodore Sedgewick Distinguished Lecture Series, this event was presented by the University of Louisville’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute in collaboration with the Filson Historical Society. Watch the talk and see the slides at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaKpwKZ1FAM Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://forwardradio.org