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Yang Jiang

Teen girls may benefit more from playing video games with their parents than boys, a st... - 0 views

  • a new study finds that when adolescent girls play age-appropriate games with their parents there may be some benefits, such as feeling closer to family members and having better mental health.
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    A new study finds that when adolescent girls play age-appropriate games with their parents there may be some benefits, such as feeling closer to family members and having better mental health.
Jerusha Saldaña Yanez

What They Play - Gamer Dad: 5 Tips for Gaming with Baby - 3 views

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    Important mention on how games can affect infants and family dynamics.
Chris Dede

Online Gaming With Real-World Friends Is Healthier: Study - US News and World Report - 3 views

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    gaming as a basis for interpersonal communication
Kim Frumin

B.Y.O.T. as a solution to tight school budgets - 0 views

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    A look at a nascent, controversial program where students bring their own technologies to school… An interesting quote from the article: "And while district administrators worried initially that poorer students would not own devices, they discovered something of 'an inverse relationship' between family income and the sophistication of their devices, particularly smartphones, said Don Boulware, the district's director of technology services."
pradeepg

Digital Kids Conference - April 25-26, 2012 in Los Angeles, CA - 1 views

shared by pradeepg on 25 Apr 12 - No Cached
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    Formerly known as the Engage conference, includes a section on family gaming. Should be interesting to follow up on the conference abstract.
Stephanie Fitzgerald

When Children Read Because They Want To, Not Because They Have To | Education.com - 4 views

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    This article applies what we've learned about self-efficacy, interest, and engagement to literacy: "What makes a child an engaged reader?"
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    Thanks for sharing this, Stephanie. Part of my job is to select books for a reading & writing academy in Seoul, and after reading this article I realized that affective elements of reading play a significant role in my book selections.
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    Hi Stephanie - The author is listed as working for Reading is Fundamental, which is an organization I now follow for my work on the T545 class project. Part of their agenda is to "prepare and motivate children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most." They focus on reaching underserved children from birth to age 8. I am hoping my website project addresses some of the issues raised in this article. Thanks.
Chris McEnroe

Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students - latimes.com - 1 views

  • "The media you use make no difference at all to learning," says Richard E. Clark, director of the Center for Cognitive Technology at USC. "Not one dang bit. And the evidence has been around for more than 50 years."
  • "does not automatically inspire teachers to rethink their teaching or students to adopt new modes of learning."
  • The app is free, and plainly can help users create visually striking textbooks. But buried in the user license is a rule that if you sell a product created with iBooks Author, you can sell it only through Apple's iBookstore, and Apple will keep 30% of the purchase price. (Also, your full-featured iBook will be readable only on an Apple device such as an iPad.)
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    This article is a bit snarky but it raises some worthwhile cautions around the buzz of tech in education, particularly Apple.
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    It is amazing to me that Apple and technology can take center stage in the education conversation without a word of professional development, best practices, learning outcomes... As I have stated before, I/we are an Apple family... but I am worried about the prospect that Apple's role in the textbook industry will eliminate other platforms and in-turn will limit access to many.
Parisa Rouhani

Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-popping - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

  • While men make up the majority of abusers of street drugs, including meth, cocaine and heroin, women are just as likely to abuse prescription pills as men.
  • tudies show that women are more likely — in some cases, 55 percent more likely — to be prescribed an abusable prescription drug, especially narcotics and anti-anxiety drugs.
  • Abuse of prescription drugs has risen right along with increases in the number of prescriptions for stimulants and painkillers seen since the early '90s,
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  • That stat is backed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which found that the main source of prescription drugs among non-medical users — a whopping 56 percent — was free drugs from friends and family.
Parisa Rouhani

Teen Survives After Being Stabbed in Head by 10-Inch Knife - Incredible Health - FOXNew... - 0 views

  • Wei's friend said he was playing an online video game when another gamer accused him of using a cheat code to help him beat online opponents.
  • no main arteries or nerves were damaged
  • Wei is in stable condition following surgery, but doctors say he is still at risk of infections, brain damage, seizures and tetanus.
Ashley Lee

Family Math In A Minute Story - 0 views

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    a research project collecting short stories about how people experience mathematics in everyday life
Jerusha Saldaña Yanez

What They Play - Kids Influencing Game Development - 0 views

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    Article provides examples on how game developers benefit from interacting with their own children (e.g. able to observe what features excite children that were not anticipated by designers)
Mohammad Hussain

Homeless and education - 1 views

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    Homeless fined $15,000 for sending her kid to a school for higher income families by providing false address and may be prosecuted.
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