Jonathan Haidt
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5,062 appearances
20 recordings
18 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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For elementary school, let's just get rid of all the one-to-one devices, go back to books and paper.
The people who made this technology, they choose, a lot of them choose to send their kids to schools that don't have it.
So when we're talking about young kids, I say just no.
Like, until it's proven safe, no.
But I think we learned something really interesting today.
So that, I forget her name, that amazing woman in Africa who's giving tips.
So note,
No internet.
That's the key.
And I said to you, like, years ago, I said, Sal, if someone would make a device that just had Khan Academy, you could not go to YouTube, you could not do anything, that would be amazing.
So anyone, I'm raising money for this, anyone want to?
Someone has to make this.
Jonathan Haidt's book, The Anxious Generation, sparked a movement to warn kids and their parents about the harms of social media.
But what do young people think?
That's on the TED Radio Hour.
Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
You are actively rewiring your brain for the worst by engaging with social media, high volume, quick videos.
And then from the medical perspective, it's rewiring your body, increasing your risk of heart disease and PTSD.
But there's all these small tweaks that you can do to override that primal urge to scroll.
For example, 91% of people had an improvement in attention, well-being, and mental health.
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