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Screen Time in School: Finding the Right Balance for Your Classroom

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Using Digital Media in Your Teaching. It's a double-edged sword: Students and teachers have more access to digital media than ever before. Because so much instruction shifted online during the pandemic, many of us have become overly reliant on screens and digital media. Managing Smartphones in the Classroom.

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5 Home and Smart Phone Filtering Options for Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

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. Bio as submitted.

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Why schools shouldn't ban smartphones

Learning with 'e's

I was asked to write an opinion piece for the Western Morning News earlier this week as a response to the comments from Ofsted and their advisers on the use of technology in schools. Many teachers are left wondering whether personal technologies such as smartphones actually have a place in education and what risks and threats accompany them.

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Connecting Parents to Student’s Digital Lives

The CoolCatTeacher

So the goal of Help at Home was to help connect parents to their students’ digital lives. Mike: We’ve started a weekly email to about 400 parents so far, where we’re covering topics like digital citizenship, security, filtering, social media — everything that really relates to how students should use technology today.