While I appreciate these thoughts and the work you are doing to try to help teachers understand the potential educational impacts, I'm losing a my patience with how little the enormous negative environmental impacts are being centered in these conversations. And kids need to know this as much as they need to know effective use. To me, the absence of that lens and of discussions on how to mitigate these impacts renders the whole approach problematic.
While I appreciate these thoughts and the work you are doing to try to help teachers understand the potential educational impacts, I'm losing a my patience with how little the enormous negative environmental impacts are being centered in these conversations. And kids need to know this as much as they need to know effective use. To me, the absence of that lens and of discussions on how to mitigate these impacts renders the whole approach problematic.