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shared by thebda on 21 Mar 13 - No Cached

Parents end up treating tablets like precision surgical instruments, gadgets that might perform miracles for their child’s IQ and help him win some nifty robotics competition—but only if they are used just so. Otherwise, their child could end up one of those sad, pale creatures who can’t make eye contact and has an avatar for a girlfriend.
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our modern fear that every parenting decision may have lasting consequences—that every minute of enrichment lost or mindless entertainment indulged will add up to some permanent handicap in the future
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To date, no body of research has definitively proved that the iPad will make your preschooler smarter or teach her to speak Chinese, or alternatively that it will rust her neural circuitry
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shared by thebda on 09 Nov 13 - No Cached

shared by thebda on 10 Mar 13 - No Cached

- thebda on 10 Mar 13
  
  I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.</div>
  
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When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people.
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By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading
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Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases.
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Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities.
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Online writing is a 21st-century skill
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