Why are Police Commissioners saying that phone pouches prevent crime?
When they don't
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Minimum age Maximum impact For smartphones, social media and AI
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A letter to my leisure centre, asking when they will ban smartglasses from premises
No leisure centre should permit them. Feel free to copy and adapt this letter and send it to your gym/leisure centre or place of your choosing.
Phone pouches are a triumph of marketing over common sense. Just ask Don Draper.
“Advertising is based on one thing: Happiness.
Stick to Bricks to protect children from Child Sexual Abuse Material
The absence of a minimum age for smartphones in the recent guidance from the National Crime Agency is, once again, missing the most powerful opportunity to better support parents and protect children
Exiting the smartphone trap is a matter of individual parental responsibility
'Collective action problem' framing may be doing more harm than good
AI boosters are attacking exams. Why?
There is a sustained movement, by those who work in AI, to undermine exams as effective assessments. This is rooted in self interest.
The Pouch Shakedown
The costs for all UK state secondary schools to pouch phones is over £60 million, plus £12.6 million a year.
Students on study leave: your smartphone is killing your gains!
To all those revising for GCSEs and A-Levels, it you want to make progress, you have to tackle the greatest distraction device ever invented.
Health warnings on smartphones are long overdue
Is there any other product, known to harm children, sold without warning?
Year 6, Stick to Bricks!
Parents, you do not need to buy your child a smartphone for secondary school.