This article brilliantly exposes the contradiction of modern digital education: schools hand out tools designed to hijack attention, then ask children to promise not to misuse them. It's like handing out candy and asking kids not to want sugar. And families are strong-armed into accepting data-mining terms that no one fully reads, let alone understands. Thank you, @MELANIE HEMPE , for your strong voice and arguments in favour of our children!
Emily, if you are reading this, thank you for your brilliant testimony. If you don't mind I would love to adapt this and find a way to present it at the appropriate venue in my own community.
Jackson, thank you for the uplifting compliment! Yes, I would love to help you find a way to use this script in your community. Feel free to email me: brownlee@screenstrong.org. It takes every single one of us to shift the culture, so kudos to you for being a champion for change!
Very well said! More and more parents need to be advocating at the school board level! So many roll over and say “that’s just the way it is” we know it is damaging and we need to demand a better way! Back to pencil and paper and real books!
This article brilliantly exposes the contradiction of modern digital education: schools hand out tools designed to hijack attention, then ask children to promise not to misuse them. It's like handing out candy and asking kids not to want sugar. And families are strong-armed into accepting data-mining terms that no one fully reads, let alone understands. Thank you, @MELANIE HEMPE , for your strong voice and arguments in favour of our children!
Nailed it, Melanie! You are THE thought leader, solution supplier, and authority with this set of issues FOR A DECADE!
Emily, if you are reading this, thank you for your brilliant testimony. If you don't mind I would love to adapt this and find a way to present it at the appropriate venue in my own community.
Jackson, thank you for the uplifting compliment! Yes, I would love to help you find a way to use this script in your community. Feel free to email me: brownlee@screenstrong.org. It takes every single one of us to shift the culture, so kudos to you for being a champion for change!
Very well said! More and more parents need to be advocating at the school board level! So many roll over and say “that’s just the way it is” we know it is damaging and we need to demand a better way! Back to pencil and paper and real books!