Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

He calls it the walled garden.

We're very similar to like a hospital or a movie theater.

The context sets your expectations.

And if you don't heavily control the context,

Don't be surprised when people don't meet your expectations.

So school used to be that safe zone where whatever you were doing out there, at least here, we got hard rules.

But then this weird thing started happening where we tried to make school more like the real world.

Well, if kids are doing that out there, then surely they should be doing it in here as well.

And once that bleed started to happen.

So I think you're right.

It's going to be a mix between the outside and the inside world of school.

And really the problem is the more the inside of the school tries to mimic the real world for whatever reason, and we could talk about digital literacy and jobs and stuff, that's where now those behaviors out on the playground we're seeing in a classroom as well.

If you can't even focus long enough to slide, good luck trying to learn chemistry or algebra.

It's exactly what you would expect.

None of it is great.

The fun thing about the brain is it's wickedly malleable.

The thing that makes our brain powerful is it's constantly changing.

If you read books really deeply, your brain will change to make sure you can sustain focus.

So basically, just whatever a kid is doing on a screen, it's a good rule of thumb that the brain will now start to seek that out.

It will adapt and say, that must be normal.