Jonathan Haidt
@JonHaidt
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Social psychologist at NYU-Stern, working to roll back the phone-based childhood. Please visit https://t.co/ZjBuXdDr8I & https://t.co/7aVAmOTlnl
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Joined January 2010
South Korea joins the movement, bans phones during classtime. It's not going phone-free -- teachers will have to separate kids from phones many times each day -- but at least its a start, and schools can choose to go phone-free.
nytimes.com
It becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools, with a law that will go into effect in 2026.
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Teachers: Here's a talk for you. I show slides for 15 min to lay out the evidence of harm to mental health and education, then talk with Randi Weingarten, via the AFT bookclub. (You have to register, then you get the video).
sharemylesson.com
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The Constructive Dialogue Institute is hiring for a full-time Director of Product. The role is 100% remote with a salary range from $155,000–$170,000. Learning more and apply here: .
constructivedialogue.recruitee.com
CDI seeks a Product Lead to drive vision, roadmap, and execution of our e-learning platform. Key skills: SaaS product strategy, innovation, and cross-team collaboration.
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Here's the map of phone policies by state, as the school year starts. Red is best (full day); Orange is class-time only, which is much less effective. Gold is that local schools must develop a policy, any policy.
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.@FareedZakaria and his team helped me bring out the story of The Anxious Generation in a compact and well illustrated video, 9 minutes. Here's the first part of our conversation.
Part 1 of my conversation with @JonHaidt on this GPS special, Disconnected: Life in a Disruptive Digital Age. I asked him how childhood has been transformed by smartphones and social media.
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RT @FareedZakaria: On GPS, @ 10am & 1pm ET Sunday on @CNN: Screens & apps now dominate our lives. What is that doing to society? . I’ll exa….
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Meta shows repeatedly that it will not be constrained by concerns for children's safety. Casey Mock analyzes the latest ethical fiasco (chatbots that are permitted to talk sex with children), concludes that legislators need to act, quickly:.
afterbabel.com
They will only truly change it when the law requires them to do so
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Are you thinking of getting your child a phone? Please read @Catherine_Price first, and heed her advice to not make the first phone be a smartphone. She reviews the excellent alternatives:.
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Go Thomas! Summer of Our Discontent is a really important book for understanding why things are as they are in America in 2025.
I believe it’s the strongest endorsement possible of my book, Summer of Our Discontent, that the Wall Street Journal says my criticism of the left is spot on but complains I’m too hard on the right, and the New York Times says my criticism of the right is good but howls that I’m.
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This is great. Life just before Americans began to take away childhood independence. We can give it back. Crime is way down since then; life is safer, but kids are much more anxious. @LetGrowOrg.
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Six years ago, my daughter walked to school on her own for the first time (age 9). It was the start of a flowering of independence. My eternal thanks to @FreeRangeKids, who inspired me to let her do it. She wrote about the decision parents face, here:.
letgrow.org
Prof. Jonathan Haidt, co-author of "The Coddling of the American Mind" and one of the three people who joined me in founding Let Grow, posted that lovely Tweet last Wednesday. This was not just a...
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Jake Auchincloss is a Democrat who understands moral psychology and the profound desire of citizens to live within a stable moral order. Dems lost, he says, because they were not perceived as upholding that order. @JakeAuch.
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Jake Auchincloss cites a craving for an orderly society, which means controlling crime, homelessness and, above all, the cost of living.
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RT @HdxAcademy: 🚨When orthodoxy and free speech threats intrude on campus, what rights and resources do you have as a faculty member?. @The….
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RT @HdxAcademy: 🚨 Swaths of the left and right have abandoned the liberal ideal of open inquiry on campus. HxA President John Tomasi descr….
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The next World Happiness Report will examine effects of social media globally. I'm pleased to contribute a chapter (with @ZachMRausch) alongside John Helliwell, @ShuhBillSkee, @CassSunstein, @jean_twenge, and others; see here: .
worldhappiness.report
The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent...
NEW: We’ve assembled a global team of leading researchers to examine the association between social media and #wellbeing for World Happiness Report 2026.
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Think about the tragic mistake we made by allowing social media to embed itself so deeply into childhood. We're about to make the same mistake, much faster, with chatbots for young children. Let's press pause. From @BernsteinGaia .
afterbabel.com
Let’s press pause on AI chatbots for kids
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