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Education World ® Administrators Center: Technology in the Schools: It Does M... - 0 views

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  • This week, Education World examines both sides of the Is technology worth it? de
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  • A study conducted at Stephens Institute of Technology found that high-school students retained math skills longer after using commercially available mathematics software than did students in a control group receiving traditional classroom instruction.
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      natasha badohu on 01 Mar 11
       
      how does commercially avaliable software help ? but i think we've used this at wellesley before, last year in my math class we used a website were we had to solve problems, so it was basically like the computer was teaching us, not the teacher himself
  • "Children who don't do anything in class will work if it's on the computer,
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      natasha badohu on 01 Mar 11
       
      this is actually so true, i personally love doing work on the computer, but it also creates huge distractions, (facebook)
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  • Educational Testing Service study discovered that math teachers who used computers could significantly boost fourth and eighth graders' standardized math scores, and a study of 53 elementary, middle, and high schools found that providing cutting-edge technology improves teachers' morale
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      natasha badohu on 01 Mar 11
       
      isn't this a problem? why are computers creating a "boost" in test scores & not because of the teachers helping them?
  • The cost of including technology in our school curriculum is high. There is no doubt there. Many people wonder, however, what the long-term cost of not including technology in the curriculum might be. Technology exposes students to experiences not available to them before.
  • es to teaching those skills need to be tested, studied, refined, and improved.
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The Impact of Facebook on Our Students - 1 views

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  • Accounts are phished when users are tricked into clicking an email or IM link taking them to fake login pages.  Once phished, scammers use various applications to suck out personal information from a user's entire network of friends. 
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      natasha badohu on 15 Feb 11
       
      This reminded my when link ad his friends were hacked through there feeds just by touching the random man at the club, there are many new sly ways hackers use to steal information and its scary, i know of some websites (aol instand messanger) can also attract hackers by watching your conversations somehow then stealing your information
  • Perhaps the most common reason that teens' private information is exposed is because they are easily tricked into accepting friend requests from strangers
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      natasha badohu on 15 Feb 11
       
      teenagers do this A LOT , just because they think they are attractive, or because they have many mutual friends with the person
  • Four years ago it was rare to learn of a child under 7th grade with an account.  Last fall, for the first time, 4th graders began reporting to us that they had Facebook accounts.  We now estimate that about 60 - 70% of 7th graders have accounts and the number is higher for 8th graders.  These children are too young to be using Facebook or other adult social networks for the reasons detailed below.
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  • We need to teach them that NOTHING IS PRIVATE online, especially their social networks. 
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Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008
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      natasha badohu on 04 Feb 11
       
      i feel like i text ten times more then this , but honestly it is becoming a problem , teens depend SO much on texting and cellphones in general , what if we didn't even have cell phones to use?
  • who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
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      natasha badohu on 04 Feb 11
       
      how specifically does it cause injuries? can this be life long? i wonder if these types of things even bother teens, it bothers me!
  • texting among teenagers in the Boston area for three years, said it might be causing a shift in the way adolescents develop
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  • but if technology makes something like staying in touch very, very easy, that’s harder to do; now you have adolescents who are texting their mothers 15 times a day, asking things like, ‘Should I get the red shoes or the blue shoes?’ ”
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      natasha badohu on 04 Feb 11
       
      I don't understand why thats such a bad thing ? should there be some type of relationship between parents and their children in general?
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    teenagers text usage .. going to far ?
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