Watching Design It For Us leaders Emma Lembke Zamaan Qureshi Trisha Prabhu @sneharevanur talking about the importance of youth voices in the shaping of responsible tech policy 👏👏👏. They are badass. So proud to play a tiny part in their media journey.

We’re so inspired by the youth leaders we heard from on Fri at #sxsw. Follow and support these #responsibletech movement powerhouses Design It For Us @logoffmovement ReThink @encodejustice Accountable Tech #youngfutures

Congrats to Mohit Patil, Dhruv Suri & Samarth Korada from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Germantown, Maryland who won 3rd Prize for their documentary, "Scrolling Through the Years: The Effects of Short-Form Content." Watch it here: studentcam.org/2024-3rdPrize-…

It’s time for the Government to restrict smartphones and social media for children. Help us and SafeScreens to make this happen by doing 1 or 2 simple things: 1. Email the main political party leaders and your MP 2. Add your name to our form All here👇 safescreens.org/call-for-chang…

Loved chatting with Stella O'Malley and Sasha Ayad, LPC for Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast. We spoke about how social media has killed flirting and romance, the fixation on mental illness and identity, and what we've lost in a phone-based world. You can watch here:

Here is a beautiful profile of the artist Dave Cicirelli, who created the cover of Anxious Generation, and illustrated All Minus One (a book by me, Richard V. Reeves, and JS Mill)

3 reasons to implement an effective mobile phone ban in school Distraction - they significantly disrupt and displace attention Depression - affecting mood/well being particularly for girls; Danger - a sig minority experience the darker/dangerous potential of unrestricted

The phone based childhood isn't just damaging mental health. It's also damaging education. Students aren't listening. Many former teachers tell me it's why they quit. Here's one such story, of a teacher who tried to resist: wsj.com/tech/personal-…

Exam time + Big Tech's business model = difficulty and distraction. Many kids say 'I'm definitely addicted to my phone.' We've let this happen, we can change things. Add your support bit.ly/3WOAbXJ safescreenscampaign Jonathan Haidt DelaySmartphones

Two clear signs that this is not just another groundless moral panic, as over comic books: 1) everyone knows someone harmed by social media, and 2) Young people are joining in the campaign to fight social media. Meet 7 of them, at After Babel: afterbabel.com/p/the-youth-re…

An ad for a monthly subscription to #odeon cinema suggested watching going to a cinema to watch a movie alone would be even better than going out to see one with friends. How did we get here?

Across the world parents are demanding change. News Corp Let Them Be Kids campaign 🇦🇺 calls on gov. to raise the age limit for social media to 16 In 🇬🇧 we are calling for a tobacco style regulatory framework for smartphones & content that will protect our children Join us!

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Some of the skeptics are so skeptical that they are not convinced that teen mental health has declined since 2012. Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) responds to an extreme skeptic essay in the NYT, sets the record straight using multiple data sources: generationtechblog.com/p/is-the-adole…

there is a revolution taking place in biology before our eyes I spent the past month reading the papers & interviews of Michael Levin, and wrote a long-form essay explaining his work and why it's important bitsofwonder.co/p/a-revolution…

Never more urgent Jeanette Winterson ❤️

“Check your child’s phone for explicit images until age 18, says police chief” We MUST address the elephant in the room. In a world where kids are more tech savvy than parents & internet enabled smartphones present such danger then regulation is needed. thetimes.com/article/6bc70b…

Fully 50 percent of a '70s boyhood was spent building bike jumps. The other 50 percent was spent recovering from broken bones from using bike jumps.

Morning wisdom from J R Tolkien (d otd 1973): “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Hello friends and followers! I've been mentoring and guiding students through the college apps jungle since time immemorial and now I've got a website to show for it. Check it out! If you think it'll be useful to a kid (or parent you know) please share: thethoughtfulgiraffe.uk/blog/