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Sandy Chappell

@SandyChatterbox

Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Specialist in #DevLangDis and Speech Sound Disorders Elklan Tutor

North Yorkshire Katılım Ocak 2016
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Sandy Chappell
Sandy Chappell@SandyChatterbox·
@LauraTrottMP @baronesscash @toadmeister AI chat bots are a disaster for young children. AI is designed to grab and hold children’s attachment & young children can’t tell the difference between a bot and a person. They genuinely think they have a new friend. Toys with built in AI chat bots should be banned.
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Laura Trott MP
Laura Trott MP@LauraTrottMP·
Labour have chosen inaction. Their consultation asks whether to ban social media, not how to implement one. It fails to meet the scale of the challenge & gives the Govt a blank cheque to do nothing or weak responses like curfews. If MPs want change, then they should vote for it.
Raise The Age@RaiseTheAge16

Tell your MP to back our amendment to raise the age limit to 16. Government consultation could mean anything (or nothing), with no timeline or guarantee. It’s a choice between certainty or delay.

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Laura Trott MP
Laura Trott MP@LauraTrottMP·
Strongly agree. For months the Education Secretary has dismissed a phone ban in schools as a “gimmick”. This feels like a move to head off backbench unrest next week. MPs should just back teachers and support a proper ban by voting with us next week.
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Karen Vaites
Karen Vaites@karenvaites·
The anti-Ed Tech and pro-book movements are gaining momentum, especially for elementary grades. Let's get the memo to the nation's curriculum selection committees, pronto. They're making curriculum choices right now that schools will live with for the next 5-7 years. My latest for @CurriculumIP: Feat. @JonHaidt @natwexler @mark_bauerlein @KelseyTuoc
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Camus@newstart_2024·
Short-form videos are literally rotting kids’ brains—and the science is stacking up fast. A major new meta-analysis (covering studies over the last decade) shows heavy TikTok/Reels/YouTube Shorts consumption is strongly linked to: - Shorter attention spans - Reduced logical & analytical reasoning - Weaker memory - Poorer impulse control - Increased anxiety Dr. Cheryl Ziegler (mental health expert): “These are quick dopamine hits with shallow, mindless content. For developing brains (ages 10–18 especially), it conditions kids to find books, deep thinking, and anything slow ‘boring.’ It’s not defiance—it’s rewiring.” She stresses: We can’t yet prove causation (long-term studies needed), but the correlation is strong enough that parents should treat it like a major red flag—right up there with proven harm. Bottom line: Endless scrolling isn’t harmless entertainment. It’s training young minds for instant gratification and shallow processing at the exact age when deeper neural pathways should be forming. Parents: How bad is the short-video habit in your house—and what (if anything) are you doing to push back? Source: 9NEWS (YouTube)
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Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant@HackedOffHugh·
Final chance to write to the consultation to try and stop the government taking school exams online. This is the address to write to. consultations@ofqual.gov.uk And here’s what I wrote.
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Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant@HackedOffHugh·
US corporations are knowingly harming our children to enrich themselves. Let’s force this government to grow a pair. No more consultation bullshit. Great campaign from ⁦@MumsnetTowers#supporthesocialban (And no, none of my children have smartphones.)
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Sandy Chappell@SandyChatterbox·
@karenvaites When I discuss the impact of screens with parents in my clinic, I have to include ‘technoference’ i.e. the harm of parental device use on a child’s language & social skills and emotional development. We draw up a family digital plan with areas that are screen-free for everyone.
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Sandy Chappell@SandyChatterbox·
@Kathy_Rice Speech and language therapists are seeing it too, at a very young age.
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Camus
Camus@newstart_2024·
Shocking new MRI study on 3–5 year olds: Just 2 hours of interactive screen time per day is linked to measurable loss of white matter in the brain. Professor Mike Nagel (University of the Sunshine Coast): “White matter is myelin — it insulates axons like plastic on a wire. Deficits in myelin early in life mean deficits in neural connectivity.” The more screen time, the greater the white matter loss — especially in areas tied to language development and literacy. Nagel’s first reaction (as a researcher and father): “Wow… I was not anticipating seeing anything like that. It hadn’t occurred to me that something as little as two hours a day was having such a profound effect.” Parents: Has this changed how you think about screen time limits for young kids — or do you think the risks are overstated?
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Laura Trott MP
Laura Trott MP@LauraTrottMP·
We can & must do more to protect children from the harms of screens & social media. Labour’s choice to consult on whether to ban social media for u16s, rather than how to implement a ban, is a smokescreen for inaction. If MPs truly want change, they should back us & vote for it.
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Sandy Chappell@SandyChatterbox·
“I’ve tried to use Jools’ story to make a difference” Well done, Ellen. You have made a huge difference.
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast

'Jools would be so proud' Ellen Roome spoke to #BBCBreakfast after the government pledged to change the rules on how children's social media data is stored, following her campaign for Jools' Law following the death of her son who she believes was trying an internet challenge which went wrong bbc.co.uk/news/technology

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Sandy Chappell@SandyChatterbox·
keirstarmer.substack.com/p/giving-child… “I will take the time needed to get this right. But once that decision has been made, I will waste no time in getting on with it.” @Keir_Starmer you have wasted far too much time already! You have all the evidence. Children need action, not promises.
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Sandy Chappell@SandyChatterbox·
"Consultation" or procrastination? The definition of procrastination: "the act of unnecessarily delaying tasks despite knowing there will be negative consequences". Looks like procrastination to me. It seems that if it's children who suffer the consequences, it doesn't matter.
safescreenscampaign@safe_screens

As @Keir_Starmer announces AI chatbots will fall under the OSA-which is failing to protect kids from social media harm- the promised “crackdown on social media” looks like a political move to avoid rebellion. So far, it’s a consultation starting in March. news.sky.com/story/governme…

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Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant@HackedOffHugh·
I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph. I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it destroys millions of jobs with the prosperity, dignity and community that goes with them. The worst scenario is the destruction of the human race - a fear openly expressed by an increasing number of senior and experienced AI engineers who are leaving the industry. And somewhere in between a myriad of horrors such as yet more screen learning and screen addiction for our children. But I do see that it will make rich men even richer. And that’s the most important thing of course.
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