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The best classroom upgrade might be less tech #TEDTalks
Humans aren’t just social — we’re ultrasocial, wired like bees and ants for deep connection. So what happens when smartphones take over childhood, tablets replace textbooks and AI companies infiltrate our kids’ lives? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out three principles of technoskepticism — and explains why, two years after sounding the alarm in “The…
@Dakiye24
July 12, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Good ❤
@sharibigay4712
July 12, 2026 at 3:08 pm
This sounds really scary, especially at ages where our kids are supposed to be developing their sense of self and how to develop critical thinking skills.
@monopolizedopamine
July 12, 2026 at 3:24 pm
💯💯💯💯💯💯
@HH-ry2zn
July 12, 2026 at 3:39 pm
Perfectly stated
@Metonymy1979
July 12, 2026 at 3:43 pm
Funny, The Atlantic just had an article saying that it has nothing to do with technology.
@jaimeh2455
July 12, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Humanity’s future is bleak. It’s only a matter of time before there is no new knowledge, because it’ll all just be recycled AI slop.
@Leyla18201
July 12, 2026 at 4:17 pm
I saw a guy at the grocery store ask Chatgbt which watermelon to choose…so yea it is scaryz
@1stboss1tm77
July 12, 2026 at 4:38 pm
This guy needs to have a talk with Sal Kahn from Khan Acedmay. Come one Ted, arrange it!
@Clarstra
July 12, 2026 at 5:26 pm
“We are about to MAKE the same mistake”*
@fredrik8685
July 12, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Why does every generation panic over the next just because they don’t understand it? We try to prepare the next generation for at future we don’t understand ourselves.
We claim reading has gone down and yet wvery child communicate via text on a daily basis. We claim the next generation is lazy and dumb, and those before us said the exact same thing.
Ofcourse we see only negative sides of how they live when we have decided that everything that differs from our own upbringing is wrong, blind to the fact that our parents did the same thing.
In my kid’s school they forbid cell phones. At the same time people worry the children can’t even find information on them and how predators easily can extort and abuse them over the Internet.
Why don’t we instead educate them in the digital world for real? Why are there not courses in information sesrch, ai use and what to be aware of.
I’m sorry, Im just so tired of an older generation that believe so blindly in their own faulty research because it is made for a completely different time.
@artofstem
July 12, 2026 at 6:04 pm
We have devastated an entire generation of learners and will continue to the next. Ask yourself why? Could it possibly be that we don’t want an educated nation of thinkers able to question and problem solve? I’ve spent three decades trying to make a difference in academics, and the uphill battle has never been with students who are -generally- ready and willing to learn, our issue is with the leaders and decision-makers who defund research-proven programs while catering to big book companies. Now it will be AI slop.
@treaustin1
July 12, 2026 at 6:45 pm
It’s hard to watch, working in schools. It’s clear that while many are benefiting from digital learning, others are incompatible with online learning and are not readily offered alternatives when difficulties arise and persist. It drives me crazy to sit at the table and see no good ideas about how to help those who are struggling with technology addiction on school-provided devices.
@barbieblue3336
July 12, 2026 at 7:08 pm
Yes. It’s why evrrything got so $$$
@fragelius
July 12, 2026 at 7:45 pm
i think its the idea
@professortill8592
July 12, 2026 at 8:00 pm
Well big companies were very in to getting tech into classrooms (free chromebook anyone?). Does sound familiar.
@thelonecabbage7834
July 12, 2026 at 11:33 pm
I refuse to let this fossil tell me that Math Blaster was a mistake.
@will_studiox
July 13, 2026 at 1:51 am
We’ve been through generations of warnings about new technologies, media, and influences on kids. Some concerns turned out to be well-founded, some were overstated. Before we declare this one settled, let’s remember we’re watching a two-minute excerpt.
@Stevros999
July 15, 2026 at 4:15 pm
Our planet would have been more accurately named Amnesia
@Seapeoples
July 13, 2026 at 7:14 am
Tbh that was a conglomerate of allegations of which some are baseline true, but decorated with fear of the new, conducted for boomers and technical illiterates!
I wouldn’t have guessed, that @TED would support such a thing!
This man just wants to foment fear over things where parents should educate their children and especially teenagers!
@owenpiffaretti3310
July 13, 2026 at 8:03 am
It’s mad growing up was a mine field before but with this…
@kanisie
July 13, 2026 at 10:32 am
Thank you
@fredman1085
July 13, 2026 at 10:32 am
This is exactly what the power structure wants.
Right now, AI is mostly giving facts, but as we become more dependent on it to give us information, it will start replacing facts with propaganda that supports whatever narrative our oligarchy wants to feed us. We will have lost try he ability to do independent research.
AI will literally be the downfall of human kind as any semblance of free people.
And you can blame the politicians who are seduced by the money and power given them by the oligarchs around the world.
@gein2287
July 13, 2026 at 11:16 am
I hate this guy. Parents are 99% the reason kids want to learn.
@TheSirNiklas
July 13, 2026 at 11:43 am
Its wild people pass of the fun part (critical thinking) instead of the menial labor. The (WORK)
@michaelshada262
July 13, 2026 at 12:02 pm
I agree people were absolutely stupid enough before AI came out. I can’t wait until after AI is in everything!
@susydyson1750
July 13, 2026 at 1:28 pm
How sick : putting AI chat boxes in dolls 😫😢sick mean and very dangerously absurd
@NOTREALQC
July 13, 2026 at 1:38 pm
Compute is killing the planet.
@dreski83
July 13, 2026 at 1:38 pm
Y U P .
@hwoonDeurim
July 13, 2026 at 1:42 pm
….sexual partners??😰
@nemamdala7300
July 13, 2026 at 1:49 pm
So true
@mikesaltman
July 13, 2026 at 2:13 pm
I didn’t have kids, I decided that by the time I was 12 years old. Since I don’t have a horse in this race I have no worries about this. I was raised in the 70’s when Soilent Green was supposed to be our future. To relieve the strain on environment I didn’t have kids. I wonder if parents really care about their kids because I know they don’t care about their environment.
@bochiecole
July 13, 2026 at 2:54 pm
The Unabomber was right, I don’t condone what he did.
@jenniferrodriguez8889
July 13, 2026 at 5:02 pm
“You reap what you sow.”
@janetbelton4017
July 13, 2026 at 5:09 pm
AI trouble is here! Protect your children and the warehouses built that destroy the water and environment .
@idon.t2156
July 13, 2026 at 5:24 pm
AI fails all the time. It has zero ability to imitate action, because it is designed by words.
@EngineersRUs
July 13, 2026 at 8:09 pm
It’s not magic. Screens are back lit so they transmit a lot more light that’s just noise or eye candy. This slows cognitive processing and understanding because your brain must process it.