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The Copy Paste Generation

The Copy Paste GenerationTechnology promised to save teachers time and personalize learning for every student. Did it deliver?Districts are going low-tech or no-tech. Parents are wondering where to draw the line with devices. And now that AI is in the classroom and the living room, one question keeps coming up: what is all this technology doing to our kids" ability to think for themselves?Hosts Elicia Dunk, a retired special education teacher with 20 years in the classroom and a parent of three, and

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Episode 4: Unputdownable: Screens, Dopamine, and Our...

The Copy Paste Generation ·

2026/10/04

Episode 4: The Shortcut Machine: Screens, Dopamine, and Our KidsWhy does turning off the game end in a meltdown? Why can a child scroll for two hours but not sit through ten minutes of homework? Cristine and Elicia talk with child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Clifford Sussman, a former gamer and programmer, about what's actually happening in kids' brains when they're on screens, and what parents and teachers can do about it without turning every limit into a power struggle.About Our GuestDr

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Episode 3: The Outsourced Brain with Dr. Brittany Harman

The Copy Paste Generation ·

2026/09/27

Episode descriptionCan't remember your own kid's phone number, but you still know your childhood best friend's by heart? That's the Google effect at work. In episode 3, we talk with Dr. Brittany Harman, a cognitive psychologist at Wilson College who studies digital amnesia, about why our brains stop bothering to store information we expect to find again later, how this "fear" actually goes back to Socrates, and what her own research reveals about memory, motivation, and the classroom. We also get

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Episode 2- The Skills Behind the Screen with Dr....

The Copy Paste Generation ·

2026/09/27

Episode descriptionWhat exactly are "executive functions," and is technology helping or hurting kids' ability to build them? In episode 2, we talk with Dr. Adele Diamond, a leading researcher on executive functions at the University of British Columbia, about what these skills actually are (inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility), why she considers them more important than IQ, and how stress, joy, and our own expectations shape whether kids develop them. Then pediatric

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Episode 1: How Did We Get Here? The History of Ed...

The Copy Paste Generation ·

2026/09/27

Episode descriptionEd tech didn't start with iPads. In our first episode, we talk with writer and historian Audrey Watters about the hundred-year history of technology in the classroom, from Sidney Pressey's 1920s typewriter-based "teaching machine" to B.F. Skinner's behaviorist devices, the first computer labs, Maine's statewide laptop program, and today's AI chatbots. Audrey explains why the same promises of saved time, personalization, and "the future" keep coming back, why the claim that "it's

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