https://globeskool.com/blog Notes on future skills, how children actually learn, and what we're building at Globeskool. en-us https://globeskool.com/blog/brain-rot-age-9-youtube-shorts-10-hours/ https://globeskool.com/blog/brain-rot-age-9-youtube-shorts-10-hours/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. screen time parenting attention future skills https://globeskool.com/blog/kids-should-not-use-google-what-they-need-instead/ https://globeskool.com/blog/kids-should-not-use-google-what-they-need-instead/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. ai literacy critical thinking future skills parenting https://globeskool.com/blog/why-we-are-building-globeskool/ https://globeskool.com/blog/why-we-are-building-globeskool/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. future skills education founder note https://globeskool.com/blog/ai-is-addictive-a-teachers-warning/ https://globeskool.com/blog/ai-is-addictive-a-teachers-warning/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. AI screen time parents https://globeskool.com/blog/the-five-future-skills-school-skips/ https://globeskool.com/blog/the-five-future-skills-school-skips/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. future skills parents assessment https://globeskool.com/blog/the-ai-education-death-spiral/ https://globeskool.com/blog/the-ai-education-death-spiral/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. AI education assessment https://globeskool.com/blog/what-karpathy-gets-right-about-ai-and-education/ https://globeskool.com/blog/what-karpathy-gets-right-about-ai-and-education/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. AI education future skills https://globeskool.com/blog/going-back-to-15th-century-pedagogy/ https://globeskool.com/blog/going-back-to-15th-century-pedagogy/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. future skills learning AI https://globeskool.com/blog/summer-is-the-highest-leverage-window/ https://globeskool.com/blog/summer-is-the-highest-leverage-window/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. parents summer future skills https://globeskool.com/blog/chinas-ai-education-experiment/ https://globeskool.com/blog/chinas-ai-education-experiment/ Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. AI education policy https://globeskool.com/blog/the-trump-ai-education-executive-order/ https://globeskool.com/blog/the-trump-ai-education-executive-order/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. policy AI education