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Notes on the skills school skips, how children actually learn, and the decisions we're making as we build Globeskool.
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Brain Rot at Age 9: What 10 Hours of YouTube Shorts Actually Does
One hour of YouTube Shorts a day adds up to 10 hours a week. Here is what that math means for a 9-year-old brain, and what parents can do about it beyond just taking the phone away.
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Kids Should Not Be Allowed to Use Google. Here's What They Need Instead.
Googling trains kids to recognize answers someone else already wrote. That is retrieval, not thinking. Here is what Future Skills actually look like for kids aged 8 to 16.
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Why we're building Globeskool
School was designed for a world that no longer exists. Here is what we think a complete education for an 8-to-16-year-old should actually look like in 2026.
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AI is 'addictive' — a teacher's warning parents actually need to hear
A teacher in the Hechinger Report called companion AI 'addictive' after watching students bond with chatbots. The distinction that matters: a bot built to hook a child is not the same as a tool a child controls.
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The five future skills school keeps skipping
Critical thinking, problem solving, communication, creativity, and working with technology. What they actually mean for a child, and why a report card never measures them.
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The AI-education death spiral: when 'let them cheat' becomes the plan
Some schools have stopped fighting AI cheating and just grade the chatbot's work. Globeskool's take: the worksheet was always the weak point, not the child. The fix is work a machine cannot fake.
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Karpathy is building AI+Education — what parents should actually care about
Andrej Karpathy is building in AI and education, and it set the conversation alight. The real question for parents is not whether AI is coming to learning, but what pedagogy wraps around it.
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Going back to 15th-century pedagogy to survive AI — smarter than it sounds
School was built around cheap printed answers, and AI just made those answers free. A thread making the rounds argues the fix is older than the printing press: learning a child has to reason through and defend out loud. Here is why that is sharper than nostalgia.
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Summer camp as cognitive rehab: what kids actually need this summer
Many families default to unstructured screen time over the summer. The case for treating these weeks as the highest-leverage window to build the skills school has no time for.
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China's grand AI-education experiment — and why your kid is already in one
MIT Technology Review's look at China's national AI-personalized-learning rollout is a mirror, not a far-off story. Every child with a screen is already in some version of the experiment.
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A federal AI-education order just landed for K-12 — so what?
A new federal order pushes AI education into K-12, but a mandate is not a method. Here is what it likely means in practice, why results will vary by district, and how parents can give their child the structured version now.
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