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EXPOSING YOUR CHILDREN TO SOCIAL MEDIA… A GOOD OR BAD IDEA?

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Is early exposure to social media a good idea? Many experts are actually for early exposure to computers to help prepare students for school. However, there is a difference between technical literacy for academic purposes and social media literacy. Understanding computers usually entails proficiency into a computer’s necessary academic and business applications. Competency in typing,

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WHY MOBILE TECHNOLOGY ENHANCES INSTRUCTION

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  As mobile technology continues to steal the spotlight in classroom methodology, certain areas of study tend to be gravitating towards the trends more strongly. Last week an Education Market Research report found that 28 percent of class time for math-based courses is spent using digital tools or interacting with digital content. The report goes

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ARE OUR CHILDREN AT RISK IN THIS NEW DIGITAL CHILDHOOD ERA?

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Think back on your childhood, and you probably remember hours spent in active, imaginative, and outdoor play. It’s likely that you rough-housed with friends or neighbors, engaged with nature, and built entire worlds from sheer imagination. The 21st century childhood is different. A 2010 Kaiser Foundation Study found that the average elementary school aged child spent 7.5 hours

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STEAM NOT STEM: WHY STEM STUDENTS NEED ARTS TRAINING

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In 1959, the British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow delivered a famously controversial lecture at Cambridge University. He described a post-war schism between two groups — scientists and the literary world. Snow identified this as a newly emergent divide, across which each party was more than happy to sneer at the other: Scientists proudly unable to quote a

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HOW TO ENCOURAGE MORE GIRLS TO PURSUE SCIENCE AND MATH CAREERS

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Women remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. Such gaps, however, are not the result of differences in intellectual ability. Girls currently make up over half of the United States’ gifted student population. If girls have the smarts needed for success

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APPS TO KEEP KIDS BUSY DURING HOLIDAYS

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As the summer holidays draw near in many parts of the world, parents shouldn’t be surprised if kids choose to fill their days with technology. After all, teens and tweens are now spending more hours on their devices – iPads, phones and computers – than they are asleep. Anxious parents will point out how bad this technology

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HOW EDTECH IS SOLVING CLASSROOM PROBLEMS!

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Some of the biggest problems in education occur in the classroom and consequently, are issues that need to be sorted out by teachers. These issues broadly fall into two categories: student problems and parental problems. Did you know that EdTech can help to resolve many common in-classroom problems? No matter what type of problems you

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IMPLICATIONS OF SEXTING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT

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Sexting among today’s youth is a problem that is becoming increasingly prevalent, and that many schools and parents are being forced to confront and manage.  Sexting is when minors take nude or partially-nude pictures or video images of themselves or others, with cell phones or webcams, and share them through text message, email, social media

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ARE WE PLACING TOO MUCH TRUST ON EDTECH?

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Most edtech tools are gorgeous: they feature a clean design, intuitive interface, and attractive graphics in a way that puts most textbooks to shame. It’s easy to make the understandable leap from appreciating the appealing presentation to assuming that the content is just as attractive. But that isn’t always the case. We can think about

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