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The Copy Paste Generation
by Elicia Dunk and Cristine Davis
The Copy Paste Generation Technology promised to save teachers time and personalize learning for every student. Did it deliver? Districts are going low-tech or no-tech. Parents are wondering where to draw the line with devices. And now that AI is in the classroom and the living room, one question keeps coming up: what is all this technology doing to our kids' ability to think for themselves? Hosts Elicia Dunk, a retired special education teacher with 20 years in the classroom and a parent of three, and Cristine Davis, a 3rd grade teacher and parent of two, want real answers. They're digging into how screens and AI may be shaping executive functioning: the skills kids use to plan, focus, reason, problem-solve, and manage everyday tasks. To get there, they've brought in a team of experts to explain: 🔹 How we got here<
Episodes
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Episode 7: Human High Fives Beat Computer Confetti with Dr. Kristen DiCerbo from Khan Academy
All season we’ve looked at the risks of AI and screens for kids’ thinking. This week we hear the other side. Cristine and Elicia talk with Dr. Kristen DiCerbo, Chief Learning Officer at Khan Academy, about what a good AI tutor should do, what it should never do, and why teachers aren’t going...
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Episode 6: Underconnected: Homework, Wi-Fi, and the Gap No Device Can Fix with Dr. Vikki Katz
“My Chromebook died.” “The Wi-Fi kicked me off.” We joke about the modern “dog ate my homework,” but for many families, getting schoolwork done online is a daily struggle. Cristine and Elicia talk with Dr. Vikki Katz, who has spent more than a decade studying digital equity, about what kids…
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Episode 5: Social Media and The Road to Digital Well Being Dr. Linda Charmaraman and Hannah Chidekel
We hand kids a device designed to be impossible to put down, then act surprised when they can't put it down. Cristine and Elicia talk with Hannah Chidekel of the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children's Hospital and Dr. Linda Charmaraman of the Youth Media and Wellbeing Research Lab at the...
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Episode 4: Unputdownable: Screens, Dopamine, and Our Kids with Dr. Clifford Sussman
Episode 4: The Shortcut Machine: Screens, Dopamine, and Our Kids Why does turning off the game end in a meltdown? Why can a child scroll for two hours but not sit through ten minutes of homework? Cristine and Elicia talk with child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Clifford Sussman, a former gamer...
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Episode 3: The Outsourced Brain with Dr. Brittany Harman
Episode description Can't remember your own kid's phone number, but you still know your childhood best friend's by heart? That's the Google effect at work. In episode 3, we talk with Dr. Brittany Harman, a cognitive psychologist at Wilson College who studies digital amnesia, about why our brains...
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Episode 2- The Skills Behind the Screen with Dr. Adele Diamond and Brittni Winslow, MS, OTR/L
Episode description What exactly are "executive functions," and is technology helping or hurting kids' ability to build them? In episode 2, we talk with Dr. Adele Diamond, a leading researcher on executive functions at the University of British Columbia, about what these skills actually are...
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Episode 1: How Did We Get Here? The History of Ed Tech with Audrey Watters
Episode description Ed tech didn't start with iPads. In our first episode, we talk with writer and historian Audrey Watters about the hundred-year history of technology in the classroom, from Sidney Pressey's 1920s typewriter-based "teaching machine" to B.F. Skinner's behaviorist devices, the…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Copy Paste Generation
Technology promised to save teachers time and personalize learning for every student. Did it deliver?
Districts are going low-tech or no-tech. Parents are wondering where to draw the line with devices. And now that AI is in the classroom and the living room, one question keeps coming up: what is all this technology doing to our kids' ability to think for themselves?
Hosts Elicia Dunk, a retired special education teacher with 20 years in the classroom and a parent of three, and Cristine Davis, a 3rd grade teacher and parent of two, want real answers. They're digging into how screens and AI may be shaping executive functioning: the skills kids use to plan, focus, reason, problem-solve, and manage everyday tasks.
To get there, they've brought in a team of experts to explain:
🔹 How we got here<
HOSTED BY
Elicia Dunk and Cristine Davis
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The Copy Paste Generation Technology promised to save teachers time and personalize learning for every student. Did it deliver? Districts are going low-tech or no-tech. Parents are wondering where to draw the line with devices. And now that AI is in the classroom and the living room, one question...
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