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Phil Taylor

Twitter, Simply Complicated. « My Island View - 0 views

  • Twitter. It is a simple tool, based on a simple idea, which is complicated by its simplicity
  • social contact with individuals is enhanced because the internet takes us beyond boundaries of space and time.
  • As that works in life, so it works in Twitter.
Phil Taylor

It Sure Is Complicated: Teen Life in the Digital Age | MiddleWeb - 0 views

  • Children’s days are over-scheduled with sports, arts, functions and additional classes. Yet the need to connect and socialize has not gone away in these overly adult-managed times.
  • Many of the young people interviewed here said they would actually rather be hanging out with friends in real spaces than posting updates in online spaces, but the hemmed-in reality of their lives makes that nearly impossible.
  • We teachers are not “digital immigrants.” We are their guides, and our role, along with parents, has never been more important, nor more complicated.
John Evans

Submit: Director's Cut Final in Cyberbullying on Vimeo - 0 views

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    "Submit the Documentary exposes the most epic struggle in the digital, Internet age: cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is bullying by means of electronic technology committed through email, instant messaging, mobile applications, social media, chat rooms, and blogs or through messages and images sent through a cell phone. Because of the anonymity, kids who never thought of being a bully are becoming harassers. By exploring the complicated dynamics behind cyberbullying, Submit the Documentary describes the impact and outcomes of advanced technology and human nature in a lawless, new, social frontier."
Phil Taylor

Is Technology Bad for the Teenage Brain? (Yes, No and It's Complicated.) | EdSurge News - 0 views

  • Social media, contrary to its reputation, actually seems to improve certain prosocial behaviors—empathy, to name one—in teenage populations.
  • So we have a dash of “good news,” a pinch of “bad news,” and a potential framework to turn “no news” into “know news.”
Phil Taylor

It's Complicated: An interview with danah boyd about teens and technology. - 1 views

  • with technology, there is such a tendency for it to be a source of anxiety. I’d really like us to be in a place where we think of it instead as an opportunity for teenagers.
Phil Taylor

Educators Will Never Be 100% Connected. | My Island View - 0 views

  • Educators have always needed to master the understanding of at least two fields of endeavor to be successful. First, they needed to master their content field. They are required to be experts of content. Second, they needed to master the field of education with a clear understanding of the latest and greatest methodology and pedagogy available. The 21st Century has now further complicated the teaching profession by requiring an additional third area of mastery, digital literacy.
  • It requires an understanding of the connected culture in order to reap the full benefits of collaboration.
Phil Taylor

The data on children's media use: An interview with Michael Robb - Rafael Heller, 2018 - 0 views

  • they’re much more likely to say that spending time interacting with each other online has a positive impact on their social-emotional lives than a negative one.
  • , we found that for all the public attention to the amount of time kids spend with digital media, parents are logging almost as many hours as their kids
  • Generally speaking, the press coverage of these issues is not well balanced, and the public mostly hears negative and alarming stories about cell phone addiction and cyberbullying and children holed up alone in their rooms.
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  • When journalists cover media-related topics, they tend to get carried away, scaring parents about everything from technology addiction to video games’ supposed connection to school shootings
  • technology addiction, and the issue ended up being much more complicated than I expected. For example, we found that among researchers and psychologists, there’s no real agreement as to what technology addiction is, how it could be measured, or how prevalent it might be.
  • it’s clear that multitasking impairs people’s ability to focus,
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