Resources

Videos

Resource Websites

These sites provide leading research and actionable resources to equip the community with the knowledge needed to advocate for balanced technology policies that put students first.

• Smartphone Free Childhood US Resources to guide EdTech and AI in school advocacy, including the robust SFC Resource Library

• The Anxious Generation Resources to put tech in its place so kids can flourish, and studies on how technology is reshaping childhood, education, and mental health.

• After Babel A free weekly newsletter where Jon Haidt and his team make sense of how technology is reshaping society — and offer practical guidance on how we can respond.

Books

Dive deep into information on the effects of screens, social media, and EdTech from leading experts.

• The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt #1 New York Times bestseller documents how the rise of smartphones and social media, as well as the decline of independence and free play, rapidly rewired childhood and caused a global mental health crisis for kids and teens

• Better Than Real Life, Richard Freed Revealing what is known to only a handful of tech elite: how Silicon Valley uses its secret science of persuasive design to shift childhood from the real world into their for-profit virtual domains of social media, video games, and online videos

• How to Break Up With Your Phone, Catherine Price A practical, evidence-based 30-day digital detox plan that will help you break up, and then make up, with your phone

• Kids Brains and Screens Workbooks Schools’ 21st-century solution to the screen addiction epidemic

• Childhood Unplugged, Katharine Martinko Practical advice to get kids off screens and find balance

Guiding Norms

See our Guiding Norms page to get in-depth information for each of our five guiding priciples.

Research Information