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Snapchat & the Vanishing Ethics of Youth
An app promoting impulsivity over reflection, secrecy over transparency, and temporary gratification over lasting relationships has come to dominate…
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Michael S. Rose
Resisting the Call for a ‘Digital Mindset’
From the heights of the digital sanctum, the decree descends, veiled in the language of innovation but heavy with obligation, an edict issued not for…
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A.I. and the Illusion of Intelligence
What A.I. offers is an illusion of intelligence and a seduction of ease, but not the kind of deep, self-reliant wisdom that true education demands.
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The Subversive Art of Slow Reading
What was once an act of immersion has now become an exercise in evasion. There’s no time to linger or to contemplate because the screen is perpetually…
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Why Latin and Logic Beat Coding Classes
The architect of tomorrow’s AI must be as much a philosopher as a technician, capable of wrestling with questions that cannot be answered by code alone…
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Let’s Not Trade Wisdom for Wikipedia
The pursuit of wisdom is not a relic of a bygone era but a timeless endeavor that speaks to the deepest needs of the human soul.
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Digital Literacy & the Slow Death of Thinking
As devices infiltrate classrooms under the guise of educational enhancement, what we witness is the slow and silent erosion of an intellectual culture…
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The Art of Memory in a World of Amnesia
The disuse of memory in contemporary education enfeebles the intellect. The reliance on external storage—be it the search engine or the…
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Michael S. Rose
Communicating in an Age of Fractured Attention
Communication is not merely a transactional act but a formative one, a process through which understanding of the world and relationships with others…
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The Algorithmic Lobotomy of Learning
Data-driven education sacrifices the art of teaching—the rich, creative interaction between teacher and student—at the altar of metrics, only to leave…
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The False Promises of Device-Based Education
Education, once rooted in the deep engagement with ideas, is now being rebranded as a matter of efficiency, a checklist of skills to be acquired via the…
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Modern Tech’s Great Moral Theater
Google Jigsaw has become a factory of intellectual surveillance masquerading as progress, a polite enforcer of ideological orthodoxy cloaked in the…
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Michael S. Rose
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