Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Anxious Generation," shares why he's encouraging more techno-skepticism and warns of the detrimental impact technology can have on kids.
My sons almost drowned in a riptide at the beach last week. My husband and I alone could not save them. A courageous, merciful stranger got us all to shore. God shows his face in many ways.
@wariocolosseum Just remember the words.
AI is like uranium.
both can be used for powerful and beneficial effect.
but it can also be unpredictable if poking it too much
btw not actively going against ai bc "the average person will use it anyways and theres nothing we can do" is such a stupid and defeatist mindset that only encourages ai growth
Billionaires are blowing up rockets and building water-polluting data centres while i’m over here recycling toilet paper roll cores, using my own bags, not running the water when I brush my teeth.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper@AC360
Hey media
Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"
The constant push for teachers to “find their why” is professionally insulting.
Purpose isn’t the issue—we already have it.
What’s missing: time to plan, autonomy to teach, freedom from micromanagement, and real consequences for the kid throwing darts into the ceiling.
In high school I was asked to read:
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
My daughter's high school asked her to read:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Have we stopped believing kids can do hard things?