[Ed]Tech for the 99%
One conversation.
One big question.
Education technology is changing the classroom. Who gets to decide what happens next? [Ed]Tech for the 99% brings research, evidence and lived experience to the families, educators and practitioners who need to understand what’s changing, question what’s being introduced, and shape what happens next.
NEXT WEBINAR
Can we evaluate how addictive an app is?
Andrew Wilmot
Attendees will be introduced to BrainSafe, a proposed framework for evaluating compulsivity potential, and examples of its application to popular apps, along with a full walkthrough against the framework of the commonly used edTech platform Times Table Rockstars.
13 October 2026
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How to interpret statistics about children and screen time?
Debora Mazetto
How to interpret statistics about children and screen time?
Debora Mazetto
In this conversation, Debora Mazetto unpacked what statistics can - and cannot - tell us about children's screen time, and why we need to look carefully at how evidence was measured and what a study was designed to find.
Key takeaways
1. A number is not a verdict about your child | Statistics describe what happened in a particular group. They do not tell us what caused something in an individual child.
2. Be careful with headlines | A striking statistic can hide what was actually measured, who was studied and what the study was designed to find.
3. Ask what “screen time” actually means | Different studies measure different kinds of use, so apparently conflicting findings may not be measuring the same thing.
4. Correlation is not causation | A relationship between screen use and wellbeing does not by itself tell us that one caused the other.
30 September 2026
About [Ed]Tech for the 99%
[Ed]Tech for the 99% is a growing international community of parents, educators, researchers and practitioners who believe that technology in education should serve children, teachers and society—not the other way around. The webinar series is organised and curated by EDDS Institute's founder, Veli Hillman, together with Dr Kali Thompson and Dr Molly Esquivel.
The name [Ed]Tech for the 99% is inspired by Feminism for the 99% by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser. Like the authors, the initiative is less concerned with abstract debates than with exploring practical questions about the kind of education societies wish to build and have for their children—and the steps needed to get there. In this context [Ed]Tech for the 99% reflects a commitment to ensuring that educational technology is shaped by the needs of children, families and educators, not by commercial interests or technological trends.
Our aim for this space
To create a trusted space where research is translated into practical understanding, where questions are welcomed, and where people from different backgrounds can learn together in support of children’s education and wellbeing.
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