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What Your Kids Are Really Doing Online
“…there exists today an underground, invisible network of children taking turns as teachers and students, sharing with each other the skills, ideas, secrets and technological breakthroughs they cherish. This university without walls or national boundaries is, without exaggeration, unparalleled in … Continue reading
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Tagged children, creativity, student, student voice, technology literacy, video
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The Internet, Youth Deviance and the Problem of Juvenoia
Why do we ignore the many indications of better, healthier, connected, smarter youth and believe all too easily that children today are narcissistic, alienated, and addicted to techno-drivel? Continue reading
Online safety report discourages scare tactics
A new, really important report has just come out about children and online safety. It is sensible and research-based, with excellent recommendations. The strongest recommendation is that scare tactics DON’T WORK to keep children safe online. I hate to sound … Continue reading
Do you sleep with your cell phone? Pew Study on Millennials
Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials — the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium — have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to … Continue reading
Posted in education reform, In the news, research, student voice
Tagged children, education, educational technology, millennial, Pew, student, student voice, technology
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The war on children’s playgrounds
“Children rise to risk,” says Joan Almon, executive director of the U.S. Alliance for Childhood. “Give them some genuine risk and they quickly learn what their limits are, and then they expand their limits.” The problem is: If kids never … Continue reading
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Tagged children, common sense, play, playgrounds, risk, student
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GenYES changes the way teachers view students, school, and technology
OK, I know a post this long violates all the rules of blogging. But I’m doing it to make a statement that only volume can make. And you don’t have to read it all - just skim through it. You’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged children, collaboration, educational technology, educator, empowerment, GenYES, project, projects, research, student, teacher, technology, youth
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Play
“When something troubles children, they have to play with it until it feels safer.” Gerald Jones, cartoonist and author of Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence
Constructing Modern Knowledge 2010
It’s back!!! Plans are shaping up for an amazing 3rd Annual Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute, July 12-15, 2009 in Manchester, NH USA (near Boston). In addition to master educators and edtech pioneers, the Constructing Modern Knowledge 2010 faculty includes … Continue reading
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Tagged alfie kohn, children, CMK, CMK10, constructivism, constructivist, deborah meier, education, institute, james lowen, learning, literacy, PBL, peter reynolds, professional development, programming, project, project-based learning, robotics, student, summer, teacher, technology, tools, training, workshop
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Online safety means empowering AND protecting
Connect Safely |Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Collier, children, ConnectSafely.org, digital citizenship, Larry Magid, online, online safety, protect, safety, social media, youth
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Children who use technology are ‘better writers’
From BBC News - Children who use technology are “better writers”. “Our research suggests a strong correlation between kids using technology and wider patterns of reading and writing,” Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust, told BBC News. “Engagement … Continue reading
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Tagged children, literacy, online, research, student, technology, writing
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