SJR Teacher/Learners

at what age should you buy your child a cellphone? And when you do buy that first phone, what kind should it be?

There is no age that suits all children, developmental psychologists and child safety experts say.

buying any kind of phone with Web access essentially allows their children unsupervised access to content and tools, like social networking and videos, that they may forbid on the home computer

Hardware and software do not help our students learn in the absence of a teacher. It is completely up to the teacher whether or not an IWB is used effectively in the classroom.

When the students came to the board and were able to physically touch the content, the hardware barrier between the student and the content was blurred, and the students seemed to be controlling the content directly versus controlling the content via the mouse.

Teachers go through phases in their use of interactive whiteboards. I