I was on CBS Mornings today, giving an update on the movement to roll back the phone-based childhood, and making an appeal to Americans to ask their congresspeople to pass KOSA by Christmas (the Kids Online Safety Act). It is stuck in the House.
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Turns out I was absolutely spamming the shutter out of excitement so here's a landing collage. Cool to see how much the TVC gimbles to pitch the booster back to vertical before lowering onto the tower.
A fallacy about social media is that in a marketplace of ideas, good information will win out.
Aside from the other reasons this is doubtful, there is the well-established finding that bad information (even clearly false stuff) will start to seem plausible if you see it often.
Yesterday we learned about the workings of AI in clinical reasoning. Let’s take it for a test drive! 🤖 and 👨⚕️ try to solve this clinical care 🤔 side-by-side.
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✍️@DrDanRestrepo @AdamRodmanMD@BageLeMage
“Strangers are able to contact minors online because social media companies choose to let them. Regulating what the stranger says is content moderation. Stopping that stranger from contacting a minor is a design choice.”
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From @JAMA_current: The associations between social media & worsening adolescent mental health are stacking, @Surgeon_General Vivek Murthy said in an interview w/ JAMA EIC @KBibbinsDomingo, and the cost of inaction is too high to delay. Read the interview. https://t.co/dpSFB2ex2t
“First, do no harm” (primum non nocere) is frequently cited in health care, but there is little consensus about what the maxim means, if anything at all. In this Viewpoint, @bradsegal explains possible interpretations of “First, do no harm” in pediatrics. https://t.co/LxXZ6eYTTH
Yes, AI can’t do what you as an expert can do. But it can probably help you with something important that scatters your attention
Focusing on the failure may make you feel good, but actually will distract you from both how good these systems are getting and how they can help you
Journalist Sends Kids off on a Smartphone-Free Camping Trip – Unsupervised. Adults Quake. Kids Flourish.
Our latest at After Babel: @FreeRangeKids and I draw out lessons from @DeccaJourno's fantastic demonstration of the ideas in The Anxious Generation:
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School leaders are nearly uniform in saying that phones interfere with learning and belonging. That matches the data on learning loss and loneliness since 2012. Here, the head of Georgetown Day School explains why his school is going phone free this fall:
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#LetGrow Co-Founder Peter Gray taught us these two truths: Kids NEED #FreePlay, and Kids are NOT GETTING it. Mammals learn through play. The more kids play, the more they learn. So, how can we help our kids get more play in their lives?
Get Peter's tips 👉 https://t.co/IgrI5cxTGL