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“Childhood and Education #8: Dealing with the Internet” by Zvi
Related: On the 2nd CWT with Jonathan Haidt, The Kids are Not Okay, Full Access to Smartphones is Not Good For Children
It's rough out there. In this post, I’ll cover the latest arguments that smartphones should be banned in schools, including simply because the notifications are too distracting (and if you don’t care much about that, why are the kids in school at all?), problems with kids on social media including many negative interactions, and also the new phenomenon called sextortion.
Table of Contents
How Many Notifications?
Tanagra Beast reruns the experiment of having a class tally their phone notifications. The results were highly compatible with the original experiment.
The tail, it was long.
Ah! So right away we can see [...]
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Outline:
(00:37) How Many Notifications?
(06:05) Ban Smartphones in Schools
(15:03) Antisocial Media
(19:07) Screen Time
(20:13) Cyberbullying
(21:12) Sextortion
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First published:
January 6th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u4M7REdXndYmzHmXx/childhood-and-education-8-dealing-with-the-internet
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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By zviRelated: On the 2nd CWT with Jonathan Haidt, The Kids are Not Okay, Full Access to Smartphones is Not Good For Children
It's rough out there. In this post, I’ll cover the latest arguments that smartphones should be banned in schools, including simply because the notifications are too distracting (and if you don’t care much about that, why are the kids in school at all?), problems with kids on social media including many negative interactions, and also the new phenomenon called sextortion.
Table of Contents
How Many Notifications?
Tanagra Beast reruns the experiment of having a class tally their phone notifications. The results were highly compatible with the original experiment.
The tail, it was long.
Ah! So right away we can see [...]
---
Outline:
(00:37) How Many Notifications?
(06:05) Ban Smartphones in Schools
(15:03) Antisocial Media
(19:07) Screen Time
(20:13) Cyberbullying
(21:12) Sextortion
---
First published:
January 6th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u4M7REdXndYmzHmXx/childhood-and-education-8-dealing-with-the-internet
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.