#15: The Screen Time Debate Needs More Voices Like This: A Conversation with Dr. Michelle Eckler

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In this episode of Make EdTech 100, I sit down with Dr. Michelle Eckler, Director of Instructional Technology for Stratford Public Schools in Connecticut — and exactly the kind of voice the national screen time debate needs more of.

We get into what it actually looks like to use technology well in K-12 classrooms: the difference between passive consumption and creative production, why one-to-one access is really about empowering teachers, and how a purposeful 10-minute tech task can beat an hour of digital curriculum on repeat.

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