Category: opinion
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Why Banning Social Media Won’t Fix the System Competing for Children’s Attention
School phone bans focus on what happens inside classrooms. The UK’s proposed under-16 social media restrictions go further by targeting the platforms themselves. But the same question sits underneath both debates: if children spend less time online, what are we offering them instead?
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What I See When Tech Tries to Replace Thinking
This is not a pitchfork post about burning technology down. It is a post about what technology is not: a substitute for meaning, judgment, education, work, trust, or the messy human world that software keeps trying to flatten into data.
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Somewhere Between Necessity and Belief
The honest answer to “Why are you a teacher?” is not always simple or inspirational. Sometimes it begins with necessity, survives through discomfort, and only later becomes belief in students, classrooms, and the strange work of helping people grow.