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JUNE 19, 2019
In my summer digital citizenship classes, the biggest question I get is how to control student cell phone usage. Luckily, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Andrew Carroll, former High School teacher, has a great analysis of the problem and discussion of solutions below: How to control smartphone usage in classroom?
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OCTOBER 27, 2017
With the rise of online games, web-based education, and smartphones that access everything from house lights to security systems, it’s not surprising to read these statistics: In 2013, 71 percent of the U.S. 41% of online teens say they use email and instant messaging to contact teachers or classmates about schoolwork.
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JULY 13, 2015
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. You have to access two different screens to type most messages. To ask a question, fill out this form: [contact-form]. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.
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JUNE 27, 2017
Many schools still do this, but there’s a better way: Digital notetaking. Students can use whatever computing device they have — including a smartphone — to record notes that can then be filed, shared, multimedia’d, and collaborated on. 5 Programs That Make Digital Note-taking Easy.
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MAY 30, 2018
Jennifer Lockman, a journalism major at UCLA, contacted me about her thoughts on how technology has changed the way she and other professionals write. Luckily for us due to the evolution of technology, everyone with an Android device or access to the internet can get the help needed to write and polish a paper.
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FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Children with smartphones have unfiltered access to the Internet unless their parents make a decision to filter. Why Do Students Need Protection on their SmartPhones? We may install things on their Chromebooks, but when they are on their phones, they are getting unfiltered access to the internet. I tried Circle.
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JANUARY 24, 2017
Guest author, Emily Clearly over at mysimpleshow has ten more reasons why videos are a great educational tool for your teaching: Videos are in line with the technological times and can be accessed on the Internet at any point, from wherever you are in the world. You can contact her via LinkedIn. Why not put the two together?
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