I’ve been a fan of Jonathan Haidt’s work for some time and he has a new TED Talk that was clear, relevant, and essential for any and all who work with, raise, or care for children.
The author of The Anxious Generation and the newsletter, After Babel, Haidt speaks wisdom and serenity into the ways we’ve allowed technology into the hands of children with so little regulation or research to see what the outcomes might be. I love his work and hope that you’ll sign up for his newsletter and watch his new TED Talk
Haidt offers this:
“ I advocate that anyone who cares about children should take a techno-skeptical perspective, and I offer three general principles that would reduce the harm to children from current and future technologies:
- Protect brain development through puberty.
- Prioritize people and books in education, not screens.
- Beware of artificial relationships for minors.”
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Image from TED Talk by Jonathan Haidt. Click to watch the full presentation on TED.