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Sean McHugh

The Surprising, Research-Backed Benefits of Active Screen Time - 0 views

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screen time screentime

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  • How about nine
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 05 Mar 19
       
      Outside of work? How is that possible? Get home from school at 4, bed at 9, even at that impractical extreme it's 5 hours, not allowing for meal time?
  • teens today are spending an average of nine hours a day online,
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 05 Mar 19
       
      Just like their parents; why is this key point so often overlooked?
  • sedentary screen time
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  • there is a very fine line between passive screen time, defined as when a child passively consumes digital content with no thought, creativity or interaction required to progress, and active screen time, which involves cognitive thought and/or physical engagement.
  • so vital for us to change how kids are using their computers and phones
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 05 Mar 19
       
      Again, only focused on kids, but if parents don't do likewise, how do they think they will have an effect?
  • As long as we ensure that our kids are actively using their screens, we can most likely avoid the problems that come with passive screen use
  • watching TV or videos
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 05 Mar 19
       
      What about the learning this offers? Specifically knowledge acquisition? Especially if that knowledge leads to hands on activity, like when kids use 'how to' videos?
  • learning a new skill like coding games or websites, creating music, writing and publishing stories or poetry
    • Sean McHugh
      Sean McHugh on 05 Mar 19
       
      Can you imagine many/and parents doing this? If they won't, how will they encourage their kids to do so?
Sean McHugh

Old people in the US are watching a lot more TV - 0 views

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screentime screen time

shared by Sean McHugh on 06 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • Americans worry about limiting the screen time of their children. They might be worried about the wrong generation.
  • It’s also more than twice as much daily TV time as 15-34 year olds, who spend less time watching TV now than they did in the early 2000s
  • The data on TV watching include streaming and shows watched on any device, not just a traditional television.
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  • Young people’s waning TV watching appears to be mostly the result of substituting TV time for playing video games and using social media
Sean McHugh

Computational Thinking Is Critical Thinking. And It Works in Any Subject. | EdSurge News - 0 views

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critical thinking computational coding

shared by Sean McHugh on 22 May 19 - No Cached
  • a way to help computer scientists think more logically about data analysis
  • at its core, computational thinking is simply a way to process information using higher-order or critical thinking
  • the framework is the same: look at the provided information, narrow it down to the most valuable data, find patterns and identify themes. And it works just as well for comparing maps, blocks of code or two works of literature
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  • The goal, in other words, is to get students to learn not to take everything at face value
  • Since the human brain is essentially wired to recognize patterns, computational thinking—somewhat paradoxically—doesn’t necessarily require the use of computers at all.
  • an innovative, mastery-learning model that is less wedded to unit and testing cycles than in other schools. Students are often graded on a custom rubric that crosses disciplines called a “continuum of skill development,” that scales with students
  • blending computational thinking into the curriculum need not require such a major overhaul. It can be inserted on a lesson-by-lesson basis and only where it makes sense.
Sean McHugh

Parenting for a Digital Future - Media literacy - everyone's favourite solution to t... - 0 views

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media_literacy media literacy media fake news critical literacy

shared by Sean McHugh on 20 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • Media Literacy … provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet.
  • The more that the media mediate everything in society – work, education, information, civic participation, social relationships and more – the more vital it is that people are informed about and critically able to judge what’s useful or misleading, how they are regulated, when media can be trusted, and what commercial or political interests are at stake. In short, media literacy is needed not only to engage with the media but to engage with society through the media.
  • any media literacy strategy requires sustained attention, resources and commitment
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  • let’s get media literacy firmly embedded in the school curriculum
  • it might be wise to calculate the cost also – to individuals, to society – of not promoting media literacy, of having a population with insufficient critical knowledge to manage its digital safety, security, privacy, civic and health information needs or consumer rights.
  • it is commonly said that media literacy is, at heart, critical thinking (demand evidence, question sources, analyse claims, consider what’s at stake for whom, etc.) and, therefore, should be taught right across the curriculum from history to science or English
  • In order to enable citizens to access information, to exercise informed choices, evaluate media contexts, use, critically assess and create media content responsibly, they need advanced media literacy skills.
  • Media literacy should not be limited to learning about tools and technologies, but should aim to equip individuals with the critical thinking skills required to exercise judgement, analyse complex realities, recognise the difference between opinions and facts, and resist all forms of hate speech
  • Work to get media literacy firmly embedded as compulsory in the school curriculum.
  • Media education is a long term solution – it takes thought-through pedagogical strategies and years of teaching, not a one-shot campaign
Sean McHugh

Three problems with the debate around screen time - 0 views

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time screen screen time science

shared by Sean McHugh on 20 Dec 18 - No Cached
  • it increasingly feels as though scientific evidence has become a casualty in the process.
  • the factors which underlie why the public discourse around technology is so dysfunctional
  • Google does not sort search output by quality; it ranks search input by popularity.
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  • Academics, public servants and other stakeholders alike need to recognise that plugging in a few terms of interest into a search engine will give an inherently skewed view of the actual state of the field
  • Academics, public servants and other stakeholders alike need to recognise that plugging in a few terms of interest into a search engine will give an inherently skewed view of the actual state of the field
  • these factors aren’t just focused on debates around the effects of technology – they speak to wider debates around science and evidence-based policy
  • Very recent evidence, that might use much better quality data or methods but that has not received much coverage, will not be featured. Yet one piece of high quality evidence might be worth 500 pieces of low quality evidence that populate the search output.
  • In 21st century life, finding evidence is not the most important skill anymore. Instead, it is recognising which evidence should be considered and which should be ignored, based on objective markers of quality.
  • Until this is addressed, moral entrepreneurs and doomsayers will dominate discourse with dire yet never fully substantiated claims
  • we need to be wary of any question which frames screen time as a simple number – questions like ‘how much screen time we should be engaging in?’, or ‘should we impose limits or bans on screen use?’ oversimplify a very complex concept to the point of becoming meaningless.
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