Jonathan Haidt

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TED Talks Daily · How screens stole childhood — and how to get it back | Jonathan Haidt · 29 May 2026 podcast

Protect brain development through puberty.

That's why it's so important for countries to follow Australia's example.

Let's just raise the age for opening social media accounts to 16, as Australia did.

All right, now let's look at EdTech.

Of course, there are good uses of technology in education.

My kids have learned a lot from Khan Academy.

But I'm very concerned about what happened when we started putting computers and tablets on kids' desks.

This is the so-called one-to-one device policies.

Computers and tablets are multifunction entertainment systems.

If kids can get to the internet, they will play video games and watch short videos, watch YouTube shorts and even porn.

As soon as we brought in one-to-one devices in the 2010s, national test scores began dropping in the USA.

And they dropped in many other countries, especially in the countries that most firmly embraced ed tech.

Now, I can't prove that these declines were caused by the screens and the apps that we put on kids' desks.

But consider this.

Sweden led the world in digitizing education in the 2010s.

They got rid of textbooks, they put a device on every desk.

They even mandated that nursery schools had to use tablets.

But after years of experience and years of declining test scores, Sweden reversed course.

In 2023, they announced that they're going back to textbooks, they're pulling out a lot of the devices, they're going back to books and handwriting, especially in the earlier grades.

Their top research institute, the Karolinska Institute, issued a report backing the government's position, saying there is clear scientific evidence that digital tools impair rather than enhance student learning.

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