Facebook These sisters read live on Facebook so kids have a bedtime story to listen togoodmorningamerica.com - Tony Morrison The two share on their Facebook page, “we are already reading each night but we thought it may be beneficial for children who won’t get that luxury.”
EducationKeep: Technology in the Classroom Is Great — When It Works. 3 Questions to Help Determine Whether Ed Tech Will Boost Studentthe74million.org - Laura Fay When it comes to learning technologies, educators and administrators often focus on what technology to use instead of how the technology facilitates …
Kids Kids now dream of being professional YouTubers rather than astronauts, study findsCNBC - Chloe Taylor Today's kids are three times more likely to aspire toward a career as a YouTuber rather than an astronaut, according to a new study. Toy production …
Instagram 'Facebook is at the point of no return': These 17-year-olds are very clear about what they love and hate about social mediaCNBC - Lucy Handley Generation Z has never known a world without the internet, smartphones and social media and their behavior is a constant source of fascination for …
Let Children Get Bored AgainThe New York Times - By PAMELA PAUL“I’m bored.” It’s a puny little phrase, yet it has the power to fill parents with a cascade of dread, annoyance and guilt. If someone around here is bored, someone else must have failed to enlighten or
'Sharenting': Can Parents Post Too Much About Their Kids Online? | Here & Nowwbur.org - Jeremy Hobson For many of us, posting on social media is a daily habit. For parents, that often means updates about what their young children are up to. But can …
NZ designer wins battle against clothing giant H&Mstuff.co.nz - Cecile Meier Kiwi designer Bridie Hall was "deeply upset" when she saw a "poorly watered-down version" of her popular alphabet brush pots sold at clothing giant …
5 Reasons Why Teaching Digital Citizenship Mattersglobaldigitalcitizen.org - Lee Watanabe-Crockett Here are 5 of the best reasons why we must continue teaching digital citizenship and, even more, modelling it for our young learners. Here are 5 of …
Digital Text is Changing How Kids Read—Just Not in the Way That You Thinkkqed.org - Holly Korbey After his bath each night, Julie Atkinson’s eight-year-old son grabs the iPad and settles into bed for some reading time through kids’ book app Epic! …
Influencers Are Faking Brand DealsThe Atlantic - Taylor Lorenz“It’s street cred—the more sponsors you have, the more credibility you have.” Tapping through Palak Joshi’s Instagram Stories recently, you might have come across a photo that looked like standard sponsored
Porn Is Not the Worst Thing onmedium.com - Anastasia Basil My daughter is ten. She wants me to download the Musical.ly app on my phone so she can make funny lip-sync videos. Everyone has it, she whines, even …
Opinion: Forget “digital natives.” Here’s how kids are really using the Internetted.com - Alexandra Samuel The different ways in which parents handle their kids’ use of technology are creating three distinct types of tech users — and setting the stage for …
The Era of Fake Video BeginsThe Atlantic - Franklin FoerThe digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem quaint. In a dank corner of the internet, it is possible to find actresses from Game of Thrones or Harry Potter engaged in
Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?NPR - Anya Kamenetz"If something on their desk or in their pocket dings, rings or vibrates — they will lose focus." "Students are doing so much in class, distraction and disruption isn't really something I worry about."
Panicked about Kids’ Addiction to Tech?newco.co - By danah boyd Ever since key Apple investors challenged the company to address kids’ phone addiction, I’ve gotten a stream of calls asking me to comment on the …
The Tech Industry’s War on Kidsmedium.com - Richard Freed “We called the police because she wrecked her room and hit her mom… all because we took her phone,” Kelly’s father explained. He said that when the …
Facts Not Fear: The Truth About Digital Media and Young Peoplemedium.com - Mike Crowley In a world in which the media is quick to stoke the fires of parental fears about technology and its potentially corrosive impact on their children, …
Education technology meets its limitsTechCrunch - Ryan CraigThis week has been a good one for those who like to talk about the limits of technology. Over in the U.K., a prankster managed to fool Trip Advisor into naming his shed the No. 1 ranked restaurant in Meanwhile,
Fake News about the Future of Educationedtechstrategies.com - Written by Doug Levin I’ve been at this technology in education thing for a long time – much of it as an analyst and researcher, some of it as a (pretty good) policy …
Nude selfies: what if they are just an ordinary part of teenage life? Australia News - Elle HuntWhen Erin was 17, she went along to a seminar with her year 11 class where she was told not to photograph herself naked – and definitely not to send such a picture to someone else. An older woman who experienced
6 Ways Social Media Will Change Your Classroomteachthought.com - Ashley McCann 6 Ways Social Media Will Change Your Classroom by Ashley McCann Technology is changing the world at a rapid pace, and education isn’t exempt from the …
We’re ‘addicted’ to socializing—not our smartphonesfuturity.org - Justin Dupuis-McGill We may be glued to our smartphones because of an evolutionary drive for socializing, rather than a technological addiction to them, new research …
Play button Making Media Literacy Central to Digital Citizenshipkqed.org It’s easy to get caught up in the hype around the latest and greatest classroom tech, from video games to 3-D printers to Raspberry Pi kits to VR to …
Teach Students To Use Social Media (The Right Way) And The Possibilities Are EndlessNPR - Ariana FigueroaCJ Marple wanted to teach his young students how quickly information can spread on the Internet. So earlier this year, the third-grade science teacher wrote up a tweet with the help of his students, asking
The Emoji Is the Birth of a New Type of Language (No Joke)WIRED - Clive Thompson Tyler Schnoebelen has discovered something curious about why people use the skull emoji. Schnoebelen is a linguist and the chief analyst for Idibon, …
Teens Are Debating the News on InstagramThe Atlantic - Taylor LorenzMore teenagers are getting their information from so-called flop accounts. It’s harder and harder to have an honest debate on the internet. Social-media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook Groups
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Children's screen-time guidelines too restrictive, according to new researchsciencedaily.com - University of Oxford Digital screen use is a staple of contemporary life for adults and children, whether they are browsing on laptops and smartphones, or watching TV. …
Is a Social Media Presence More Powerful Than a Degree?createcultivate.com - Arianna Schioldager It started with an Instagram post. "I remember the old days when you needed a degree and a resume to get a job. Now you need 10k followers and a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe Teachers Guild - How might we empower students to be better digital citizens - smart, kind, and secure online? - Favoritesteachersguild.org
