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6 Ways Teacher-authors Protect Their Online Privacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

we have a access to our income streams on our digital devices. Any moderately-talented hacker can access your computer’s webcam and microphone remotely. If you currently use a messaging app (iPhone’s native iMessage app or Facebook’s Messenger), stop doing that. Use Signal instead. Hotspot from your phone.

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Option 3: Actually USE the smartphones

Dangerously Irrelevant

The accepted dichotomy in this study and the media seems to be 1) doing low-level knowledge work while smartphones are banned, or 2) doing low-level knowledge work while smartphones are present (and, presumably, distracting). How about a third option, that of doing higher-level learning and USING the smartphones to help with that?

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Permanently Disrupting Education. With Smartphones.

TeachThought - Learn better.

With Smartphones. The Information Age is as full of change as it is spectacle, with access an integral component. Access for everyone to everything, a principal the Khan Academy is built on. Of course, with this kind of access comes disruption. Modern smartphones have the chance to change all of this. Out of sight.

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Metaverse Education: What’s Next for Virtual Learning?

ViewSonic Education

One of the biggest factors driving recent interest in the metaverse has been Facebook’s decision to invest heavily in this area and re-branding of the platform as ‘Meta.’ This makes the metaverse an accessible tool that many students may benefit from, both educationally and socially. . ViewSonic Education.

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Smartphone Detox: How Teens Can Power Down In A Wired World

MindShift

If the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov were alive today, what would he say about smartphones? That’s exactly what’s happening with smartphones, says David Greenfield , a psychologist and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut. Hearing the buzzer had become pleasurable.

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Boosting Digital Literacies for a Purpose

Digital Promise

UAMEZ’s Tech Team builds capacity for language literacies in their daily ministry, starting with basic skills like how to use a smartphone and how to draft an email or text message. They also boost information literacies by teaching learners how to access and utilize online resources.

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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

Facebook demands its potential users to be at least 13, but a lot of school kids say they never or rarely use Facebook anyway. The figures for smartphones are a bit lower, but this shouldn’t come as a surprise, since smartphones are not the most preferred mobile device to support students’ learning anyway.