<![CDATA[Stories by Ira David Socol on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@irasocol?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*pKNEmhQTcADw9gwfTYVxsg.jpeg Stories by Ira David Socol on Medium https://medium.com/@irasocol?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 09:27:51 GMT <![CDATA[“Schooling Disorder.”]]>

It’s not phones, it’s not social media, it is school, and the expectations in American parenting. Dr. Peter Gray’s new book makes this…

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]]> https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/schooling-disorder-43d8515df558?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://medium.com/p/43d8515df558 Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:31:15 GMT 2026-11-13T17:24:54.136Z <![CDATA[Schools of Fear]]>

Exactly how scared of their administration does an educator have to be to find themselves unable to report or do anything to stop child…

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]]> https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/schools-of-fear-51c2aabca6dc?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://medium.com/p/51c2aabca6dc Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:53:48 GMT 2026-11-10T21:00:59.615Z <![CDATA[Twenty-Five Years After]]>

the Eleventh of September in the Year of Our Lord, Two-Thousand-and-Twenty-Six

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]]> https://medium.com/zenite/twenty-five-years-after-610f09618612?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://medium.com/p/610f09618612 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:13:11 GMT 2026-09-11T17:41:08.659Z <![CDATA[The Riskiest Thing a School or Parent Can Do Is Take Risk Out of the Lives of Kids.]]>

“When our solution to concerns about childhood and adolescence is to take things away, we are admitting to our failures as parents…

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Disrespecting your students and dismissing their abilities and capabilities is as common as it is destructive.

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]]> https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/everything-our-kids-cant-do-5a2a0420974e?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://medium.com/p/5a2a0420974e Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:13:07 GMT 2026-04-03T14:31:06.293Z <![CDATA[The Dirty [Baker’s] Dozen: Thirteen School Technologies Most Destructive to Learning.]]>

The “no screens,” “no phones,” and “just pencils and books” narratives are incredibly dangerous to children for a number of reasons. The…

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]]> https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-dirty-bakers-dozen-thirteen-school-technologies-most-destructive-to-learning-9d948163b8ea?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://medium.com/p/9d948163b8ea Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:43:32 GMT 2026-03-23T16:42:19.931Z <![CDATA[If you want to fight teen “phone addiction,” the answer is freedom, not bans.]]>

Allowing adolescents to be adolescents — to be developing humans — is the way to solve your concerns about personal mobile devices and…

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]]> https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/if-you-want-to-fight-teen-phone-addiction-the-answer-is-freedom-not-bans-b2e4510654d8?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://medium.com/p/b2e4510654d8 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:39:04 GMT 2026-03-06T20:15:12.697Z <![CDATA[It’s your moral responsibility to get your children away from Google, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.]]>

If your main worries are phones and “social media,” it means you’re not paying attention.

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]]> https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/its-your-moral-responsibility-to-get-your-children-away-from-google-apple-meta-and-microsoft-9b7f93352c25?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://medium.com/p/9b7f93352c25 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:36:54 GMT 2026-02-26T19:36:54.459Z <![CDATA[Real Research: Is it Mobiles and Social Media? Or is it School and Parenting?]]>

A radical proposal, but if you’re sure it’s digital distractions… you’ll welcome the chance to prove it.

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]]> https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/real-research-is-it-mobiles-and-social-media-or-is-it-school-and-parenting-58ec16c9023f?source=rss-645d49397dff------2 https://medium.com/p/58ec16c9023f Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:08:46 GMT 2026-02-04T20:08:46.458Z <![CDATA[Let’s Make Third Grade Kids Taller, and Hope Teens Forget About Mobiles]]>

We know why politicians do it, but why do educators rush to adopt mythic solutions based on obvious untruths?

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