The one thing she doesn’t use her cellphone for? Making calls.
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Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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For example, although almost 90 percent of households in the United States now have a cellphone, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has stagnated, according to government and industry data.
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Instead of talking on their cellphones, people are making use of all the extras that iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphones were also designed to do — browse the Web, listen to music, watch television, play games and send e-mail and text messages.
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Snapfinger Puts Dinner Just an App Away - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The service is most popular, the company says, in Orlando, Fla.; Chicago; San Francisco; Portland, Ore.; Houston; and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Scientists now saying carbs, not fat, are to blame for America's ills - latimes.com - 1 views
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"A reversal on carbs Fat was once the devil. Now more nutritionists are pointing accusingly at sugar and refined grains."
Pew Study Says Internet Users More Social, Civically Engaged - 2 views
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Full Study located here: The Social Side of the Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/The-Social-Side-of-the-Internet.aspx
6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 1 views
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notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
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Learning analytics
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Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Character Education for the Digital Age - 3 views
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Our challenge is to find ways to teach our children how to navigate the rapidly moving digital present, consciously and reflectively.
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the "one life" perspective says the opposite, that it is precisely our job as educators to help students live one, integrated life, by inviting them to not only use their technology at school, but also talk about it within the greater context of community and society.
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The tie that binds us to our ancestors is that both ancient and digital-age humans crave community
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Parent Advice - Have Kids Traded Life Skills for an Online Life? - Common Sense Media - 0 views
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Balance media skills with life skillsIt's all about balance. But like an acrobat on a tightrope, balance takes effort. Here are some strategies for my high wire act:
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Tying shoelaces and riding a bike are not 2 to 5 yr old skills. Too bad the study didn't look at relevant skills for that age set, or they could've done yet another story on computer use in early years of school, but this mismatched data doesn't say much. I do think that downtime is important. Ironically enough, I schedule it in for my kid daily.
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Your points are excellent (as always) but I think we as parents should take some lessons from the digital world as well. You allude to this in your last point above - games are excellent for teaching all sorts of things,
College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy' on YouTube - Technology ... - 0 views
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But to Mr. Khan, occasional mistakes are part of his method. By watching him stumble through a problem, students see the process better, he argues. Sometimes they correct him in comments on his YouTube videos, and he says this makes students more engaged with the material.
Family meetings, 'tech breaks,' encouraged to keep tabs on kids' online activity - Winn... - 2 views
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Parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' online activities are wasting their time and should use an approach that builds trust and allows for conversation, says a psychologist who has studied texting, social networking and other online pursuits.
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"Your job then is to learn and to assess, and to now use your parent radar to see if there might be any problems."
SpeEdChange: Schools that matter - 2 views
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People who've heard me talk about middle schools have probably heard me say something like, "this age group has a million legitimate things to worry about every day, and none of them are in our curriculum."
Quality Homework - A Smart Idea - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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Do American students have too much homework or too little? Neither, I’d say. We ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should matter to parents and educators is this: How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?
Many US Schools Adding iPads, Trimming Textbooks| The Committed Sardine - 3 views
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And even with the most modern device in hand, students still need the basics of a solid curriculum and skilled teachers. “There’s a saying that the music is not in the piano and, in the same way, the learning is not in the device,’’ said Mark Warschauer, an education and informatics professor at the University of California-Irvine whose specialties include research on the intersection of technology and education.
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“I think one of the real key questions that will be answered over the next several years is what sort of things work best in print for students and what sort of things work best digitally,’’ Diskey said. “I think we’re on the cusp of a whole new area of research and comprehension about what digital learning means.’’
Education Week's Digital Directions: Tech Literacy Confusion - 0 views
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Teaching literacy—reading and writing—is a core mission for schools, but today's young people increasingly "read" 3-D computer simulations and "write" via social networks such as Facebook. A growing chorus of experts say schools should add these forms of communication to their literacy mission as "technology literacy."
Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.
Facebook in classroom, bad idea? - 0 views
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However, Davidson says educating students about appropriate use of social media will need to be a part of the curriculum.
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They need to develop critical skills to select information and to make decisions about information. They also need to be critical about who they meet on the internet and what they tell them, [and] what they post."
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technological skills are best learned as an integral part of a lesson, not as a separate class
Presentation Zen: 7 Japanese aesthetic principles to change your thinking - 0 views
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Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. "Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono.
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Beginning to think about design by exploring the tenets of the Zen aesthetic may not be an example of Lateral Thinking in the strict sense, but doing so is a good exercise in stretching ourselves and really beginning to think differently about visuals and design in our everyday professional lives.
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Kanso (簡素) Simplicity or elimination of clutter.
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