RT @HdxAcademy: 🇺🇸 This Independence Day, we're reflecting on one of the most famous early American defenses of academic freedom. Despite….

Can anyone find a school, state, or country that went phone free (bell to bell) and regrets it, or reversed it?. The Netherlands went phone free in most schools in 2024. Their first major survey of schools finds very positive results:.

RT @HdxAcademy: "Monasteries were ancient, wealthy institutions: socially revered centers of learning and piety. Yet within six short year….

Here's my latest talk, at @aspenideas, with thanks to Olivia Walton as discussion partner. I explain why I now think that attention fragmentation is the greatest harm of the phone-based childhood.

What should you do if you've already given your child a smartphone or social media account, and you regret it? . As a parent, when you have new information, you can change your family's policies. Here's how, from Andrea Davis, of Better Screen Time:.

The dilemma for Iranians: "Would you rather have a stranger kill your abusive father, or have him continue to live and abuse your family?" . A beautiful essay by leading researcher in moral psych (and friend) Morteza Dehghani:.

I agree, this is a problem. We're working on this too, e.g., .

It's always a pleasure to talk with @jordanbpeterson. We went deep into the mechanisms by which the phone-based childhood brings different consequences for girls and boys -- in developmental trajectories and mental illness:.

Plans of an 11 year old for a summer vacation spent in the real world. Beautiful. @LetGrowOrg.

I loved talking with @MichelleObama and her brother Craig, about raising kids. And about our own free range childhoods. Discovered that Michelle's family and mine had exact same dynamics when sleep training our first-borns--the dads had to do it.

My gratitude to @GovKathyHochul for getting phones out of schools! An excellent bell-to-bell policy. This will help all of New York's children, including mine:.

The new book from @sapinker is excellent. It really helped me understand the factors that promote or block collective action.

RT @HdxAcademy: 🏆 Musa al-Gharbi received the Exceptional Scholarship Open Inquiry Award for his robust and impactful academic and public s….

RT @glukianoff: "Free speech makes you safer. Free speech cures violence. Free speech protects the powerless. And even 'bad' people can hav….

But in my quick endorsement of a blog that supported my prior belief, I demonstrated one of the main ways that I have said that social media is making America "uniquely stupid." Constant turmoil over billions of claims, many of them untrue.

I do believe humanity's ability to pay sustained attention is declining, as documented in this FT article, which shows that declines are not limited to adolescents; it may now be hitting adults: .

I took a blog's quick take on shortening reading passages on the SAT at face value, without investigating. It seems that the reason was not shrinking attention spans. Image of my tweet below, now deleted. See here for why the reform:.

RT @HdxAcademy: 🔎 How have both the left and right abandoned the liberal ideal of open inquiry on campus?. In a new interview, HxA Presiden….

RT @HdxAcademy: ⛪️ The sharp church vs. the thick church: which does @jon_rauch believe is key for a pluralistic republic?. He spoke with H….

To legislators in New Hampshire, as you consider making your schools phone free today: Teachers and principals are begging for help. They want to engage their students, but phones block that:.