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John Evans

A Letter To Parents Of Digital Age Children - 1 views

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    "First, let me thank you for entrusting me with teaching your children, honoring the amazing individuals they are, and helping them discover the confident and empowered young people they can be. Providing a rich and engaging environment for your children to learn in is my utmost concern, but Iately I have had to acknowledge that the young people I see every day do much of the learning that is important to them when they leave the parking lot and head home from school. Thus, I am writing to solicit your help."
Phil Taylor

Ensuring "the Internet doesn't make our children stupid" - 0 views

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    "Ensuring "the Internet doesn't make our children stupid""
Phil Taylor

Study Finds More Young Kids Can Work a Smartphone Than Tie Their Shoes - Ina Fried - Mo... - 1 views

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    ""Technology has changed what it means to be a parent raising children today--these children are growing up in an environment that would be unrecognizable to their parents," Smith said. "As our research shows, parents need to start educating kids about navigating the online world safely at an earlier age than they might otherwise have thought.""
Phil Taylor

- 10 ways the research behind banning #mlearning for children is flawed - 0 views

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    "10 ways the research behind banning #mlearning for children is flawed"
Phil Taylor

Child Safety on the Information Highway - 2013 - 20th Anniversary Edition | SafeKids.com - 0 views

  • One thing we have learned in the last 20 years is that many young people — certainly most teens– are pretty savvy about how they use the Net, though all of us can use some reminders now and then.
  • And parents — even those who may be technologically challenged — continue to have a crucial role to play in guiding their children and helping them sort out and deal with the stresses of life, both online and offline.
  • A better strategy would be to teach children to be “street smart” in order to better safeguard themselves in any potentially uncomfortable or dangerous situation.
Phil Taylor

Children not outside playing? Don't blame technology - 0 views

  • Many of the arguments being made today as to how the Internet is ruining our society were first put forth with the introduction of public speaking, the printed word, telecommunications and so on.
  • should respond to emails at 6 a.m. on a Saturday (emergency or not), this is less about your boss's disposition and more about a common lack of education as to how to best use technology.
  • It's my job to best manage my technology (and not the other way around).
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  • For generations, youths have showed they would rather sit around and play than go outside and play. It's not technologies' fault if a kid is lazy ... it comes down to parenting, values and the child's disposition.
  • But, there's something else we need to remember: Our values were created in a different time and in a different place.
  • The current jobs the majority of my friends are working at didn't exist as occupations when I was in high school. Should a child be lugging around five textbooks in a backpack that's causing them spinal disc herniation or does an iPad not only enable them to have a lighter load, but the ability - when used properly - to also create, collaborate and engage more with their peers.
  • I would argue that it's not an all-or-nothing proposition
Phil Taylor

5 tactics to safely engage children in social networking | SmartBlog On Social Media - 1 views

  • So, how do you provide social satisfaction to children while keeping them safe?
Phil Taylor

Digital Birth: Welcome to the Online World| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • AVG surveyed mothers in North America (USA and Canada), the EU5 (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), Australia/New Zealand and Japan, and found that 81 percent of children under the age of two currently have some kind of digital profile or footprint, with images of them posted online. In the US, 92 percent of children have an online presence by the time they are two compared to 73 percent of children in the EU5.
Phil Taylor

Will · "We Prepare Children to Learn How to Learn" - 1 views

  • “We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test,” said Pasi Sahlberg, a former math and physics teacher who is now in Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture.
  • seeing this “human aspect” of education?
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