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

Tweets

13
Followers

360
Following

11
Likes

33

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

2 months ago

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…

0 4 11 398 2

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

2 months ago

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

0 0 7 332 2

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

2 months ago

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

11 67 364 301K 88

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

2 months ago

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

1 0 4 241 1

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

2 months ago

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

0 1 3 167 2

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

2 months ago

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…

0 0 2 120 2

View Details

Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

3 months ago

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…

53 383 2K 96K 458

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

4 months ago

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]

Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh

4 months ago

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.

52 278 1K 91K 66

0 0 4 271 0

View Details

Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh

4 months ago

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.

526 6K 25K 940K 1K

View Details

The Telegraph @Telegraph

4 months ago

‘It’s insanity. It’s so frenetic. It’s so flimsy. They’re on a machine, which they already equate with leisure… we’re already setting them up to fail.’ On this week’s Planet Normal Sophie Winkleman explains to @LiamHalligan and @AllisonPearson about her deep frustration at the amount of time children spend on screens in schools and the damaging impact it is having on their health. 🎧👉telegraph.co.uk/planet-normal/

9 29 92 27K 17

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

6 months ago

Our Patron, Sophie Winkleman, said The Sunday Times Get Britain Reading campaign is "brilliant". We know that reading for fun can transform lives. Studies show that reading print leads to better reading comprehension and deeper learning. We support Get Britain Reading.

0 0 4 192 0

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

6 months ago

EdTech does not belong in schools until it’s been independently tested and proven to help. This graph from Jared Cooney Horvath’s new book The Digital Delusion shows that devices interfere with education. Devices are distracting, unproven and extract our children’s data.

2 10 31 73K 4

View Details

Close Screens Open Minds @CloseScreens

6 months ago

@ThomasSowell Hi! This is a great clip of Hugh but it’s from our event and not Children’s Health Defence. I would be very grateful if you could add our branding to it. Thank you.