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Manitoba is the first province in Canada to enact a ban on social media and AI chatbot use by children, with a federal ban under consideration. As schools have supplied most students with their own tablets or Chromebooks, and many children bring cell phones to schools, it will be very difficult to ban social media and AI without also banning all Internet enabled devices.Canadian schools across the country would be wise to order text books, dictionaries, encyclopedias and lots of paper to prepare for a return to analog-based, research evidenced, tried and true, effective learning tools taught by human teachers. Hooray Canada! Putting child health and safety first again.

Manitoba to ban social media, AI chatbots for youth — a first in Canada | CBC News Manitoba will ban youth from using social media and AI chatbots, Premier Wab Kinew announced on Saturday. The proposed law protecting youth from the harmful effects of social media will be the first of its kind in Canada.

It’s not just cell phones we need to get out of schools, it’s all screens including Chromebook and tablets. The Internet is quite simply not safe, not an effective learning tool, and not legal (privacy infringement, data harvesting, etc.). Children are at school to learn not be entertained. Ed Tech and AI are preventing children from thinking, resulting in brain shrinking. This is the first generation of children who will grow up less smart than their parents were at their age. There’s something wrong and we need to fix it. Ask your schools to opt out your children from screens.

Anti-Chromebook movement sweeping schools - The Boston Globe The movement comes more than a decade into a nationwide achievement decline — one which predates the pandemic, but not school-issued laptops.

It’s important to understand that many organizations who seemingly are there to advise us regarding a edtech safety, are sponsored by the technology industry, thus creating significant conflict of interest. Check it out.

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Parents – are you concerned about the overuse of screentime in schools? Read this OpEd article in the Washington Post about how you can opt out your child from screens at school. You do have a say in your child’s education, or lack thereof.

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