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Freelance journalist. Author of Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World and How We Can Take It Back and Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations.
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To Screen or Not To Screen

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By Chris Berdik Verified, Elizabeth Rood
| joanganzcooneycenter.org
On a warm spring afternoon, an elementary school classroom in Manhattan became a laboratory for an emerging variety of edtech—the kind without screens. The flattop desks were pushed together to create workstations stocked with multicolored pipe cleaners, markers, construction paper, kid-safe scissors, tape, and googly eyes. The designers included half a dozen kids in kindergarten and first grade working with researchers and product developers from the edtech startup, Cali’s Books.
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Evidence, Rigor, and the Race to Market

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By Chris Berdik Verified, Amanda Lenhart
| joanganzcooneycenter.org
There is a fundamental disconnect in the edtech world: What’s best for profits isn’t always what’s best for learning. It’s not that edtech makers don’t care if their products help students in the real world. The trouble is that efficacy studies require significant funding, research expertise, and time, all of which are in short supply as edtech companies compete in the marketplace.
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The Unbearable Munch

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By Chris Berdik Verified
| Substack
Welcome to the May edition of CLAMOR! In this edition, the moral judgments of misophonia. Also, car companies want to add more vanity loudness to electric vehicles, vanishing birdsong, and some book news. But first, a note to readers. I hate missing deadlines, even the self-imposed ones. Whether or not you noticed this newsletter’s absence for the past couple of months, I apologize. As a freelance journalist, I make a living one assignment at a time, most of which require pitches.
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