Big Ideas Schools Can Adopt
The two main ideas Haidt says schools should focus on
What are phone-free and play-full schools?
One example school required phones to stay in backpacks all day
What is Mountain Middle School?
One rule of the Play Club: students must tell an adult if they do this
What is leave the area?
A project where students do something new on their own
What is the Let Grow Project?
To engage boys, Haidt recommends adding more of this kind of training
What is vocational or technical training?
These interventions are described as easy and inexpensive
What are going phone-free and increasing unstructured free play?
Phone bans help reduce these three harms of phone-based childhood
What are attention fragmentation, social deprivation, and addiction?
Improving recess involves fewer of these
What are rules?
Autonomy helps reduce anxiety by building this
What is competence and resilience?
Haidt warns that this limited ban is not enough to reduce phone harm
What is banning phones only in class?
Implementing these can reduce anxiety before students reach this school level
What is high school?
This inequality worsens as phone harm affects these groups most
What are lower-income or minority students?
Playgrounds with loose parts support this human instinct
What is biophilia?
Re-normalizing independence requires this from communities
What is collective action?
He suggests measuring success by tracking these indicators
What are anxiety, depression, and focus levels?
This phrase describes Haidt’s view that schools shouldn’t "fish for minnows" but stand on these
What are whales?
To be effective, bans must last this long during the day
What is the entire school day?
Play is described as a natural cure for this emotion
What is anxiety?
Schools can shift culture by assigning this kind of project
What is independence homework like the Let Grow Project?
Randomized trials include phone-free, play-full, both, and this group
What is a control group?
These two changes are the foundation of prevention-based student well-being
What are phone-free and play-full schools?
The author says schools can help by teaching this social skill lost to screens
What is face-to-face communication?
Adding more unstructured play can strengthen this ability in children
What is problem-solving or resilience?
Let Grow encourages parents to replace fear with this
What is trust?
Schools can strengthen community ties through these activities
What are after-school clubs and team-building programs?