Why ‘Brain Rot’ Can Hurt Learning — and How One District Is Kicking It Out of School
I was recently sitting with my friend’s 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. I’d wanted to get a kid’s perspective on “brain rot,” Oxford University Press’ 2024 word of the year that describes both low-quality video content and what seemingly happens to the mind after watching too much…