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The Digital Delusion
  • Published: 20 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804965634
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

The Digital Delusion

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25 Aug 2026
Hardback
20 Sept 2026
EBook
20 Aug 2026
Audiobook
20 Aug 2026
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An urgent, deeply researched call to rethink the role of tech in our classrooms

Our children are struggling.

Schools, once alive with deep learning born of human connection, are now dominated by screens. The result is unmistakable: falling performance, fractured attention, and the slow erosion of rigorous thought.

We were told that classroom technology was progress. It wasn’t. In The Digital Delusion, neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath reveals why digital tools in school consistently undermine learning -- and what parents, teachers, and schools can do to push back with purpose.

Drawing on decades of neuroscience and education research, Horvath dismantles the core myths driving the EdTech movement, and offers a practical playbook for putting people -- not programmes -- back at the centre of education.

This is not a call to reject technology. It’s a call to reclaim real learning.
  • Published: 20 August 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804965634
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Jared Cooney Horvath

Jared Cooney Horvath (PhD, MEd) is a neuroscientist, educator and bestselling author who specialises in human learning and brain development. He is the creator of The Learning Blueprint, an international award-winning programme helping educators and students understand how learning actually works. He has conducted research and taught at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Melbourne, and has worked with more than 1,000 schools around the world. He has published over fifty research articles, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist and Harvard Business Review. He currently serves as Director of LME Global, an organisation dedicated to bringing cutting-edge brain and behavioral science to educators, students and communities.
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Praise for The Digital Delusion

Terrifying and essential reading.

HUGH GRANT, BAFTA-Winning Actor and Education Advocate

Not anti-tech, but pro-learning. If you are an educator or a parent, you’ll want to read this book.

JONATHAN HAIDT, bestselling author of The Anxious Generation

Empowers us to fight back to bring learning back to our schools.

ANNA LEMBKE, bestselling author of Dopamine Nation

The book so many of us have been waiting for. Give this book to teachers, heads, parents, governors, policy makers, politicians - anyone and everyone connected with children.

SOPHIE WINKLEMAN, Actress and Campaigner Against the Digitisation of Education