<p>When schools hand children Chromebooks, iPads, Google accounts, and Microsoft Teams access, what’s really happening behind the screen?</p><p><br></p><p>In this eye-opening conversation, Titania Jordan joins Nicki Petrossi to reveal alarming new data from Bark Technologies’s monitoring of school-issued technology used by millions of students across the U.S.</p><p><br></p><p>The findings are staggering:</p><ul><li>12% of children encountered cyberbullying </li><li>3.74% encountered instances of depression</li><li>7.46% encountered discussion or content related to suicidal ideation, imminent suicide or self-harm</li><li>39.83% of students encountered violent content</li><li>22% were exposed to drug-related content</li><li>10.77% encountered sexual content</li><li>11.64% encountered medically-concerning content</li><li>2.69% encountered hate speech</li><li>0.23% encountered body image content</li><li>1.79% encountered anxiety-related content</li></ul><p><br></p><p>They discuss how students are using Google Docs like disappearing-message apps, why schools are struggling to keep up, and what parents can do right now to better protect their children.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode is a wake-up call for parents, educators, school administrators, and policymakers about the unintended consequences of putting addictive, poorly protected technology into children’s hands.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.bark.us/learn/k-12/">Get Bark for Schools </a>(for free!)</p><p><a href="https://info.bark.us/scrolling2deathbp">Get the Bark Phone</a></p><p><a href="https://www.techsafelearning.org/">Parents Templates and Resources at Tech-Safe Learning</a></p>