Excellent article on banning young people from social media: "Young people are presumed incapable of navigating the digital world responsibly while parents are positioned as the primary custodians of digital safety. This creates a circular blame loop in which adolescents are punished for an apparent lack of maturity and parents for an assumed lack of vigilance all the while technology companies remain largely unaccountable."
https://digitalliteraciesnetwork.com/2025/12/06/misplaced-accountability-why-should-young-people-be-made-to-pay-for-the-problems-big-tech-create/

Misplaced accountability: Why should young people be made to pay for the problems Big Tech create?
Should individuals aged 16 and under face restrictions on social media use? The European Parliament thinks so. This position raises pressing questions: What assumptions underpin these recommendatio…
Digital Literacies Network"have you used AudioPen
or have an opion on it" asked my colleague Dirk on our group chat. "tried it and didnt get on with it" replied Angela. And that seems as good a technical evaluation that I have seen!
More.from John Naughton's newsletter - "Large Language Models are cultural technologies and, as such, moderately useful. But they (and those who build them) have two blind spots. One is their embodiment of a ludicrously narrow concept of ‘intelligence’. The other is the delusion that when one has ‘read’ everything that’s been written, one knows everything worth knowing."
The old jokes are the nest -from John Naughton's newsletter - ”What’s the difference between a maths PhD and a large pizza? A large pizza can feed a family of four.”
"many commercial educational AI tools are based on folk theories of learning" Michał Wieczorek, and Alberto Romele