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John Evans

Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • MIDDLE SCHOOL students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering supervision, and logic suggests that you won’t witness a miraculous educational transformation.
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John Evans

Introduction to Twitter - 0 views

  • Twitter is one of the fastest growing Web 2.0 services out there at the moment. At first glance, it might seem like an enormous distraction and waste of time. In this class, we're going to take a second glance at it and focus on ways in which Twitter can help you to tune in to the larger flow of ideas about teaching with technology that you might otherwise not hear abou
John Evans

TED Prize » Blog Archive » Talking Trash - 0 views

  • At this year’s TED, Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation gave a short talk on how plastic waste is choking the seas, killing birds and poisoning fish. Anyone who has been inspired by Sylvia Earle’s talk and wish will not want to miss this devastating presentation.
John Evans

New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development - MacArthur Foundation - 0 views

  • Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value.
  • “It might surprise parents to learn that it is not a waste of time for their teens to hang out online,”
  • But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.”
John Evans

Teach Science and Math: Why Use Technology to Teach Science and Math? - 9 views

  • After four weeks of providing staff development and in-class support regarding how to use these data loggers, with the eight science teachers in the school. The science teachers began to come up with strategies and techniques on their own for integrating CBL Probeware data loggers in their lessons. At the same time all the teachers confided in me that they had all agreed in advance that using this technology was a waste of time and that they would resist every step of the way.
  • Their minds were changed as they discovered their students were more interested in science experiments, grasped the technology quickly, better understood concepts, and were able to make connections with other concepts. The teachers also found out that they were not behind in their curriculum and students scored better, on average, on chapter tests
  • Instead of resisting technology, the goal should be to harness the technological energy in students and become a guide for the best ways to use technology to learn.
Phil Taylor

Family meetings, 'tech breaks,' encouraged to keep tabs on kids' online activity - Winn... - 2 views

  • 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.
  • "Your job then is to learn and to assess, and to now use your parent radar to see if there might be any problems."
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