sociology of education + digital | Monash University | current interests: automation, AI, facial recognition, datafication, eco-justice + digital degrowth
Mar 24, 2024 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
*Completely* banning phones from schools is a conservative, reactionary response which says more about the frailties of school systems which are based around controlling, nudging, and mistrusting young people (and their teachers) … 🧵
There is definitely a need to detach young people from targeted advertising, the attention economy, and other Big Tech impulses that make smartphones a highly-problematic presence in all of our lives …