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Ignored a long to-do list today because I couldn't stop thinking about NYC’s new AI policy (in short, keeping student-facing generative AI out of elementary and middle schools for now). This is the part that got me, AI education is limited to this: “Two 45-minute modules will introduce [high school] students to wha…

In my latest for Psychology Today I write about this back-to-school year in which phones are out, screen time is being cut, and AI rules, policies, and laws are still being drafted. On the surface, it looks like this is all about technology. It isn't. A phone ban may address a real threat to attention—but banning…

"AI literacy" might be the most-used, least-defined phrase right now. We hear kids need it, but can't really articulate what it is they need. So I thought I'd write up a plain English explanation, at least from our view from teaching digital literacy for 16 years. If you think this might be helpful to someone you…

Ignored a long to-do list today because I couldn't stop thinking about NYC’s new AI policy (in short, keeping student-facing generative AI out of elementary and middle schools for now). This is the part that got me, AI education is limited to this: “Two 45-minute modules will introduce [high school] students to wha…

I'm so happy that I listened to this TED talk by Candice Odgers (2x's). It so reflects our own experiences with preteens and teens. They are a pretty awesome lot. As Odgers so well explains, the narrative we consistently read and hear, that "smartphones and social media have destroyed them and their brains, just doe…

I was lucky enough to visit a monastery on the other side of the world, in Bhutan, where we came across this young monk, head bowed over a phone. I’ve decided to share this photo because his face is hidden, and because I think the message it sends matters. My first instinct was to feel depressed and judgmental. But…