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It’s A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One

MindShift

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. And then I ended up Googling them … and it went downhill from there!” And girls also report liking social media much more than boys do.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). The ECAR study indicates that most students (appx 80%) do use their smartphones for one or more classes while only 46% consider them “essential for coursework” compared to their laptops at 93%. Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I try to shut the laptop in the afternoon and not look at or think about any of it again until morning. It was a slow process over the course of the month of January — mapping out the podcast season, working on the February materials for 40 Hour, planning out some stuff to share via email and social media.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Lesson plans and activities Applied Digital Skills (by Google): If you're a Google school, these useful lessons help students use Google tools to create both practical and creative projects. This means digging into how media messages are made, why they're made, whose interests they serve, and what they mean.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. In November of 2012, Chris was named one of Dell’s #Inspire100 – one of the 100 people changing the world using Social Media.