Researcher Kenda Dean of Princeton studied and wrote a book on American teens. Her findings on teens who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were so remarkable that she dedicated an entire chapter to their exceptional faith and character. Details:

Beautiful Easter message today from Dieter F. Uchtdorf

My favorite Easter song! Take a minute and listen ... these children sing it so beautifully! Christ is risen! youtube.com/watch?v=2GijSu…

I'm coming home from a trip to Paris, Amsterdam, London. There's a widespread and growing recognition of the damage done by the phone-based childhood, and so much movement toward protecting children. For example, this, in the Financial Times today, by Simon Kuper ft.com/content/4c7d99…

The Chosen is one of the most successful TV shows in the past decade. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has played a critical role in the show’s success, which has involved the Church’s top leadership. Here are the details:

Underrated comment here. ha!

"The way you'll see it (a boy's brain has been damaged from tech overuse) is everything off of a screen is boring."

Please apply, or recommend to a colleague that they apply, for the open research editor position for ETRD! form.jotform.com/AECT/etrd-appl…

These two women appeared on The View to discuss the experiences of Latter-day Saint women and the concept of marriage within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, research and data contradict their representation. Here is the research and data:

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Angela Duckworth gives a brilliant graduation speech at Bates: "Where you physically place your phone may be one of the most consequential decisions you make." Guard your attention. Not with willpower, but situation modification: Angela Duckworth youtube.com/watch?v=HxVsaN…

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This is such an important project! We need more open source methodology books, so if you have the skillz, help the students pay the billz (with a free book for them!) by contributing to this open source textbook! docs.google.com/document/d/1gu…

PROvo!

I've had the opportunity to take half a dozen trips down to South America with grad students to work on projects with various universities. This video discusses the overall Latin American Initiative at BYU. youtube.com/watch?v=DDfsVb…

Grok 4 is the first time, in my experience, that an AI has been able to solve difficult, real-world engineering questions where the answers cannot be found anywhere on the Internet or in books. And it will get much better.

New Article out with Bobbie Sandberg, Jered Borup, Charles Graham, and Heidi Erickson, where we discuss how the push/pull/mooring theory with interviews of parents to explain why parents choose to enroll their kids in online schools. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

New ETB update from Royce Kimmons , now available in the 2nd ed of our foundations text! AI-generated translations into Spanish, French, and Portuguese for any chapter, and whole translations at edtechbooks.org/foundations_of… (Spanish) or edtechbooks.org/foundations_of… (Portuguese).

If you enjoyed The Anxious Generation, here are 3 recent essays at AfterBabel.com that are like 3 short chapters for parents, on effects of: 1) Porn afterbabel.com/p/how-protect-… 2) Video games afterbabel.com/p/its-not-just… 3) Online gambling afterbabel.com/p/smartphone-g…

Ha, highly suspect! But I'll assume this is accurate! My iq score iq-checker.xyz/richardewest