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Intensive Small-Group Tutoring and Counseling Helps Struggling Students - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • John Evans on 29 Jan 14
     
    "CHICAGO - By the time they reach eighth grade, according to federal tests, half of all African-American schoolboys have not mastered the most basic math skills that educators consider essential for their grade level. A new paper being released Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests a promising approach for helping the most challenged students, who often arrive in high school several years behind their peers."
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Bullying is not on the rise and it does not lead to suicide | Poynter. - 2 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 28 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Yet when journalists (and law enforcement, talking heads and politicians) imply that teenage suicides are directly caused by bullying, we reinforce a false narrative that has no scientific support.
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Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 12 Jul 10 - Cached
  • 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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The Daily Maverick :: Mobile books the South African way - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 08 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Forget Amazon’s Kindle or the iPad, here's a novel project that’s making literacy fun and could just change the way teen literature is published in Africa.
  • Shuttleworth Fellow Steve Vosloo believes that ordinary mobile phones in townships are the iPads and iPhones of Africa. Vosloo is the brains behind an ingenious project, Mobile for Literacy, that gets teenagers in townships to read more by working  with technologies they already know and love to use
  • Turns out the smartest technologies aren’t the newest gadgets or devices such as the Kindle or iPad. On the contrary, in Africa they’re clever ideas that work with existing devices to change the world for the better.
  • John Evans on 08 Jul 10
     
    Mobile for Literacy project
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What to do about teens and their dumb naked photos of themselves. - By Dahlia Lithwick ... - 0 views

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  • Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.
  • Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.
  • Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.
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  • Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.
  • Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.
  • Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.
  • Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone.
  • Greensburg, Pa., were charged with disseminating child pornography for sexting their boyfriends. The boys who received the images were charged with possession. A teenager in Indiana faces fe
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More and More, Schools Got Game - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 05 Jan 09 - Cached
  • As Net-generation teachers reach out to gamers, classrooms across the country are becoming portals to elaborate virtual worlds.
  • But lately, researchers and educators say sentiment toward gaming is changing. Advocates argue that games teach vital skills overlooked in the age of high-stakes tests, such as teamwork, decision-making and digital literacy. And they admire the way good games challenge players just enough to keep them engaged and pushing to reach the next level
  • if ( show_doubleclick_ad && ( adTemplate & INLINE_ARTICLE_AD ) == INLINE_ARTICLE_AD && inlineAdGraf ) { placeAd('ARTICLE',commercialNode,20,'inline=y;!category=microsoft;',true) ; } The Pew Research Center reported in September that 97 percent of youths aged 12 to 17 play video games, and half said they played "yesterday."
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  • A new generation of game designers is borrowing from the sophisticated platforms and stunning graphics that captivate students for hours after school. They hope to channel the kind of feverish determination students exhibit when stealing a car in Grand Theft Auto and redirect it toward more wholesome pursuits, such as algebra.
  • Compelling games can help schools compete for students' attention, advocates say, even as many teenagers are tackling complex projects on the Internet in their free time.
  • Private foundations and the National Science Foundation have contributed millions of dollars to developing or studying games. The U.S. Education Department awarded a $9 million grant in September to a New York-based education firm to develop games for the hand-held Nintendo DS to weave into middle school science lessons
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Tar Heel Reader - 0 views

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  • Marie Coppolaro on 10 Jan 09
     
    free, easy to read, voice to text, books for special needs readers up to teenagers
  • Tom Stimson on 16 Jun 09
     
    Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. You may write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or pictures you upload.
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Many teens send 100-plus texts a day, survey says - CNN.com - 1 views

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shared by John Evans on 21 Apr 10 - Cached
  • As most parents of adolescents know all too well, text messaging has become the preferred method of communication for American teenagers, with one in three teens sending more than 100 texts a day, a new survey says.
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Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • students in the Independent Project are remarkable but not because they are exceptionally motivated or unusually talented. They are remarkable because they demonstrate the kinds of learning and personal growth that are possible when teenagers feel ownership of their high school experience,
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Are Smartphones Taking Over Our Lives? (STUDY)| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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  • New research portrays the UK as a smartphone-addicted country. Mobile data services have increased 40-fold in a three-year period in the country, and more than a quarter of adults and nearly half of teenagers own a smartphone
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Teachers: Watch this and Try not to Cry - Then DO SOMETHING! : Stager-to-Go - 8 views

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  • 60 Minutes just aired a two-part story that stands in their grand tradition of breathtaking journalism. The report tells the story of Gospel for Teens, a non-profit arts organization created in Harlem, NYC by the radio broadcaster, publisher and theatre producer, Vy Higginsen. Her original goals were modest; teach kids to sing gospel music so that this important African American art form endures. The lessons Ms. Higginsen, the teenagers and the 60 Minutes audience learn are much more profound and life-altering.
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When Like doesn't mean like: Experts say there's nuance to Facebook behaviour - 0 views

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  • "But a lot of this has to do with the nature of social media itself and its relative newness and culture. Grownups and teenagers and youth alike have to figure this out."
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Which Generation is Most Distracted by Their Phones? - 3 views

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  • Adults are as addicted—if not more addicted—to technology as teenagers.  
  • adults’ smartphone addiction telepressure: “the combination of a strong urge to be responsive to people at work through message-based [information and communications technologies and] a preoccupation with quick response times.”
  • It’s worth considering: When we criticize teens who are glued to their screens, are we offering wise advice? Or are we projecting our own mixed feelings onto them?
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Digital Citizenship Curriculum | Common Sense Education - 2 views

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  • John Evans on 02 May 19
     
    "These new and revised lessons, based on our original K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum, take on timely topics for school communities, support teachers with improved classroom tools, and prepare students to take ownership of their digital lives."
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Panicked about Kids' Addiction to Tech? - NewCo Shift - 1 views

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  • children learn values and norms by watching their parents and other caregivers.
  • Once you begin saying out loud every time you look at technology, you also realize how much you’re looking at technology. And what you’re normalizing for your kids.
  • Teenagers loathe hypocrisy. It’s the biggest thing that I’ve seen to undermine trust between a parent and a child.
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  • When there is a disconnect between parent and child’s views on a situation, the best thing a parent can do is try to understand why the disconnect exists.
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