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Esther Wojcicki: How to Raise Successful People
youtu.beI just watched one of the best talks ever given on what smartphones, social media, and ed-tech are doing to childhood and education. From Sophie Winkleman.
If you question the wisdom of the screen-based school day, you must watch, just 20 minutes:
https://t.co/QBdpNhRyVR
Jonathan Haidtx.com
Teachers should be guides of the learning journey, not authoritative instructors ready to dish out abuse or punishment when the child expresses non-conforming behaviors.
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children (LifeTools: Books for the General Public)
amazon.com
Kindergarten teacher wants us to stop teaching 3yos to read because she doesn’t think there are any benefits 🤡
can’t stop won’t stop https://t.co/kikMMGr2a1
Raising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with “the bottom line,” with how our children “do” rather than with who our children “are.” We pour time, attention, and money into insuring their performance, consistently making it to their soccer game ... See more
Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
