Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens
A group set up by Anna Grant & Arlene Carruthers who are concerned about school EdTech in collaboration with Patrons Hugh Grant & Sophie Winkleman closescreensopenminds.com Joined May 2025-
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Cognitive skills, attention spans, executive functioning - all declining. If we as adults choose to surrender our minds to technology, that's our choice - but we must not inflict that surrender on our children. Read the evidence: closescreensopenminds.com/the-evidence #ClosescreensOpenMinds
At our Parliament event, Sophie Winkleman makes a joint statement with neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath: we have to teach children how to think and AI teaches children how NOT to think. We must say a very loud No to AI in schools.
Randy taught science for 30+ years and helped bring in his school's first Chromebooks. Within a year he watched his students' curiosity disappear. He went tech-free instead - the positive difference was immediate. Teachers, what's your experience been? #ClosescreensOpenMinds
If you have schoolchildren, this is worth watching . Especially from 10.30 in to 14.00. Teachers on why screen learning has been a blind alley. youtu.be/xiQDlPFAdLM?si… via @YouTube
Glasgow's director of education binned a school maths app: not about giving kids dopamine hits. Meanwhile ScotGov's phone ban leaves school iPads untouched (The Herald). Teachers and textbooks work. Free letters to school heads templates via link in bio. #ClosescreensOpenMinds
AI doesn't teach children to think. It thinks for them. Humans default to the path of least resistance. The vast majority of children will take the shortest route to get the essay done. That’s not laziness - it’s biology. closescreensopenminds.com
Social media, smartphones, and EdTech are all fins and teeth of the same shark. Slot machine tactics for business gain - while scores plummet in the classroom. Time to push back - closescreensopenminds.com
Top schools and leading educators are ditching screens. Every child deserves the education that actually works. closescreensopenminds.com
children up at night. When you're ready to act, our free, prewritten letter templates help you push back by writing directly to your headteacher. It takes just a few minutes. Link in bio. Our wonderful Patron Sophie Winkleman speaking, June 2026. #ClosescreensOpenMinds
Save and share if any of these questions sound familiar. You did not sign up for this. And you don't have to stay silent. Parents across the country are asking the same questions - about books, about data, about obscene content on school iPads, about homework that keeps
Handwriting lights up the whole brain 🧠. Typing leaves it dark. Every child deserves to learn with every part of their mind. closescreensopenminds.com
Why has my child's education been reduced to links, games and videos? Why is he getting headaches and losing sleep? 1 million children in Britain spend nearly every lesson on a screen. Parents did not sign up for this. 📷 closescreensopenminds.com/write-to-your-…
Over 20 years of research show that reading from paper (rather than a screen) consistently leads to significantly better comprehension among students of all ages. For the full interview with @HackedOffHugh , Sophie Winkleman and @JonHaidt visit - closescreensopenminds.com/the-infiltrati…
Holidays from smartphones and tablets are bliss! For the full interview with @HackedOffHugh , Sophie Winkleman and @JonHaidt visit - closescreensopenminds.com/the-infiltrati… Filmed by @PostcodeFilms
Hugh Grant and Jonathan Haidt share parents' concerns - BigTech is ruthlessly addicting our children to screens. For the full interview with @HackedOffHugh, Sophie Winkleman and @JonHaidt visit - closescreensopenminds.com/the-infiltrati… Filmed by @PostcodeFilms
What is the motive of EdTech companies? Is it the data of children and their parents? For the full interview with @HackedOffHugh , Sophie Winkleman and @JonHaidt visit - closescreensopenminds.com/the-infiltrati… Filmed by @postcodefilms
Screens are bad for memory and critical thinking. For the full interview with @HackedOffHugh , Sophie Winkleman and @JonHaidt visit - closescreensopenminds.com/the-infiltrati… Filmed by @PostcodeFilms
Since 2012, children have been taking in gigabytes of short form videos that don’t mean anything. This is cultural suicide and it is ruining their ability to focus. For the full interview with @HackedOffHugh , Sophie Winkleman and @JonHaidt visit - closescreensopenminds.com/the-infiltrati…
A beautifully written case for why physical textbooks are so much better for learning than the online distractions that have replaced them. From Sophie Winkleman and @drdavidajames spectator.com/article/textbo…
We support our Patron, Hugh Grant: please email Ofqual and say No to online exams. If it happens, we can be sure the entire educational system will recalibrate to device based learning - which is fundamentally at odds with how humans learn. [email protected]
Final chance to write to the consultation to try and stop the government taking school exams online. This is the address to write to. [email protected] And here’s what I wrote.
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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