Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) referred to as for a ban on cellphones in each Ok-12 college within the U.S. throughout a speech in Washington on Thursday.
“As we increase technology in schools, we also have to acknowledge where technology is already harming our kids,” Slotkin advised an viewers on the Heart for American Progress Motion.
“Too many students are lagging in the people and the problem-solving skills that will be even more valuable in the future economy, and that’s largely because of social media and cellphones,” she continued. “To that end, we should ban cellphones in every K-12 classroom in America.”
Slotkin went on to say that Congress and the courts ought to maintain social media corporations accountable for using algorithms that may trigger youngsters to be hooked on “extreme content.”
Slotkin’s feedback come every week after she and Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) launched bipartisan laws to ban cellphones in faculties for kids of U.S. navy members.
In the identical speech, Slotkin referred to as for a “thoughtful” introduction to synthetic intelligence (AI) in faculties “balancing the need to prepare young people with the need to develop good, old-fashioned critical thinking skills.”
“Rules of the road for AI are absolutely vital because if we’ve learned anything from the internet revolution, the tech industry will not police itself,” she mentioned.
Slotkin’s feedback on cellphones and AI within the classroom have been a part of a broader speech, which she referred to as an “economic war plan.”
The Michigan senator famous that the basics of the plan are jobs, schooling, housing, safety, vitality, setting and well being care.
“Back during my war planning days at the Pentagon, the first thing we did was lay out the specific problem we were trying to solve. The middle class is shrinking. That’s not a political statement, it’s a fact. This core issue unites moderates, progressives and everything in between,” she mentioned.
