Why are the kids scoring poorly today?Uh, high ceilings. This study is making the news, but it is bad🧵 pic.twitter.com/V3sxq5S7Z6— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) July 4, 2024
The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic
A couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap title…
Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play | Aeon Essays
Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure. Without the freedom to play they will never grow up
A Lost Secret: How To Get Kids To Pay Attention
Maya kids do better on tests measuring attention, researchers say it's because these kids have something that many American kids have lost.
Thread by @AustenAllred: "This is a tweetstorm about things that have surprised me having started a school, coming from a non-educational background 1. Students’ brai […]"
Thread by @AustenAllred: "This is a tweetstorm about things that have surprised me having started a school, coming from a non-educational bacents’ brains are broken by our existing system. We’ve been reworked purely for extrinsic reward and forgotten […]"
Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers
Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…
Iranian school hit by air strike: Le Monde's investigation confirms many civilian victims, including children
Videos obtained and analyzed by Le Monde confirmed that the bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on the first day of joint US-Israeli strikes on the country, caused many civilian victims, including children.
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains
Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests
Researchers compare math progress of almost 1,000 high school students
Quality Wednesdays: How we trained our team to see what doesn’t work - Linear
In early 2023 at an offsite in Tenerife, our European engineering team did a series of exercises that ended up changing the way we work.
Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) on Twitter / X
What's amazing about this is every time there's a new grand prediction about AI, it's like people forget the 500 previous predictions from the same group of people that were completely wrong. AI by 2025 (Musk). AI doing most coding by 2025 (Amodei). Etc. Why is that?? https://t.co/t9CcMQO4EN— Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) (@xriskology) January 28, 2026
Derrière le mal-être des adolescentes, la découverte de la domination de genre
Plusieurs rapports sortis ces derniers temps, en particulier celui de la Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques (Drees) , a…
Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 on Twitter / X
Never in my life did I expect that I would ever see a social media post addressing a feed full of people *checks notes* calling Terry Tao, IMO gold at like thirteen, an idiot. https://t.co/sKoYoLi34e— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 11, 2026
USA/Iran: Those responsible for deadly and unlawful US strike on school that killed over 100 children must be held accountable
Those responsible for planning and executing an unlawful US strike on a school in Minab, Hormozgan province in Iran that killed 156 people, including 120 children, must be held accountable, Amnesty International said today. Evidence gathered by the organization indicates that the school building was directly struck, alongside 12 other structures in an adjacent Islamic […]
Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried.
