Filo brings the care of a Montessori classroom to the digital world children grow up in.
Rejecting technology backfires. Wielded with care, it can help raise children who can choose and act for themselves.
"Screen time" lumps together things that have nothing to do with each other. A child typing a message to their grandmother shares nothing, pedagogically, with a child watching an algorithm's endless shorts. So we don't ask how much. We ask one thing:
Does the child's action produce a real effect on the real world?
The educator's job is to prepare the digital environment with the same care we prepare a physical one , and to build the right invitations where they don't yet exist.
The case for dispensing with the concept of “screen time” is Matt Bateman's , and I find it deeply persuasive.