{"id":257178,"date":"2026-05-27T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/head-of-major-teachers-union-calls-for-restrictions-on-ai-screens-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:25:16","slug":"head-of-major-teachers-union-calls-for-restrictions-on-ai-screens-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/head-of-major-teachers-union-calls-for-restrictions-on-ai-screens-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of major teachers union calls for restrictions on AI, screens in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/nation-world\/head-of-major-teachers-union-calls-for-restrictions-on-ai-screens-in-schools-robert-f-kennedy-jr-artificial-intelligence\">Head of major teachers union calls for restrictions on AI, screens in schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/nation-world\/head-of-major-teachers-union-calls-for-restrictions-on-ai-screens-in-schools-robert-f-kennedy-jr-artificial-intelligence\">https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/nation-world\/head-of-major-teachers-union-calls-for-restrictions-on-ai-screens-in-schools-robert-f-kennedy-jr-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 16:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wlos.com\">wlos.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 <\/span>American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten called for restrictions on artificial intelligence and screen usage in schools.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech on Wednesday, Weingarten said that students are \u201cdrowning in tech\u201d and there needs to be research done on the effects of students\u2019 learning with AI.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cStudents need their teachers \u2014 real human beings, not robots and not chatbots,\u201d she said during a speech in Washington, D.C., according to NBC News.<\/h2>\n<p>She clarified that she wasn\u2019t calling for a ban on AI or screen usage, but there has to be a balance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not calling for an AI ban or a Chromebook bonfire,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat I am calling for is getting the balance right to harness the benefits of technology while mitigating the harms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently joined Iowa GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds to discuss the Office of the Surgeon General initiative on youth screen time guidance.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cThis advisory gives parents practical science-based tools to help protect your children and build healthier habits at home,\u201d Kennedy said during a press conference with Reynolds. \u201cBut parents can\u2019t solve this problem alone. Schools should limit unnecessary screen use in classrooms.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>The report from the Surgeon General\u2019s office goes into statistics such as five out of 10 teenagers having experienced cyberbullying and that by 2050, about 40% of children will be myopic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/nation-world\/head-of-major-teachers-union-calls-for-restrictions-on-ai-screens-in-schools-robert-f-kennedy-jr-artificial-intelligence\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of major teachers union calls for restrictions on AI, screens in schools https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/nation-world\/head-of-major-teachers-union-calls-for-restrictions-on-ai-screens-in-schools-robert-f-kennedy-jr-artificial-intelligence Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wlos.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/4138\/1320\/0x1\/90\/117841e8-4c09-4630-9952-4f331b71ede8-GettyImages2167969154.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257181,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257178\/revisions\/257181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}