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 …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo NZ designer wins battle against clothing giant H&Mstuff.co.nz - CECILE MEIER H&M pulls candles that look very similar to a Kiwi designer's brush pots after the designer complains on social media.
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.
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! …
Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored ContentThe 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 …
TED Talks Opinion: Forget “digital natives.” Here’s how kids are really using the Internetted.com - Alexandra Samuel Doug Chayka The different ways in which parents handle their kids’ use of technology are creating three distinct types of tech users — and setting the …
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 Here are two things you could do Ever since key Apple investors challenged the company to address kids’ phone addiction, I’ve gotten a stream of calls …
The Tech Industry’s War on Kidsmedium.com How psychology is being used as a weapon against children Richard FreedBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 11, 2018 “We called the police because she …
Facts Not Fear: The Truth About Digital Media and Young Peoplemedium.com Mike CrowleyBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 2, 2017 Parents who are scared, who set too many limits and are always negative can create issues for …
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 - The GuardianWhen Erin was 17, she went along to a seminar with her year 11 class where she was told not to photograph herself naked – and definitelynot to send such a picture to someone else. An older woman who had
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo 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 logo How might we empower students to be better digital citizens - smart, kind, and secure online? - Favorites Announcedteachersguild.org
Online Photos Can’t Be Used Without Permission, EU Court Rulespetapixel.com - Michael Zhang A Virginia federal court sparked quite a controversy among photographers last month when it ruled that copying photos found on the Internet is fair …
What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!hechingerreport.org When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of …
Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolutionmedium.com Graham Brown-MartinBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 14, 2018 Learning to thrive in a transforming world We are on the precipice of what the World …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNew Media Millenials, New Media and Social Change (Part Two)henryjenkins.org - Henry Jenkins
