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It's still government policy to roll out AI tutors and other forms of AI across primary and secondary education.
Maybe a rough equivalent would be banning all kids from public parks in case someone sells heroin to some of them, while also prescribing methadone to all kids, just for funsies.
So a nuanced conversation is needed, and not a politically motivated, rushed plan making for convenient PR for a govt in crisis.
The reality is that the functionalities that parents and people are most afraid of can also be crucial for people whose identities, preferences and needs aren’t covered by mainstream education or by their immediate network.
Our paper underscores the importance of affordances like anonymity, the ability to interact with forums without verifying your identity, and learning from peers *particularly* for Queer users of all ages.
Since the UK government seems intent on playing political football with young people’s digital & offline lives with the social media ban, I'm resharing the paper that @pamogranite.bsky.social, Catherine Talbot & I wrote re: the importance of SM for LGBTQIA+ users journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
Free + free lunch. What's not to like?
July 23-24th in Balham (South London)
11-3pm each day featuring some great speakers talking on some very timely topics
Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org
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I put some words on if the big phone OS providers can stop children from sharing explicit images in this article by @stokel.bsky.social.
Also some excellent words by @bloggeronpole.bsky.social & Julian Hayes.
Overall, great collection of words. Go read.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
And yet they push for technosolutionist approaches that are going to do exactly the same, while failing to invest in offline digital, consent and sexuality education and pathologising nudity in the process. Why do public consultations when the answer is always populism?
In the @newscientist.com talking about why the Starmer government's latest promise to 'stop children from seeing and sharing explicit images' sounds great as a headline, but is going to have severe unintended consequences in practice, and it's going to be hard to implement successfully.
