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Smartphones in the classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

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? It’s a smartphone that your students are using. We are all aware of the negative impacts of smartphones.

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No Child Left Offline: Confronting the Mental Health Crisis in the Smartphone Era

Shake Up Learning

The post No Child Left Offline: Confronting the Mental Health Crisis in the Smartphone Era appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Instead of a learning aid, smartphones turned into the most pervasive distraction we’ve ever encountered in classrooms. It’s no secret that I love technology. But my bottom line has always been learning.

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How to Track My Child’s Location

Ask a Tech Teacher

Now that so many children carry smartphones, do you track your child’s location? With the rise of smartphones and other technological advancements, keeping track of your child’s location has become more convenient than before. These apps use smartphones’ GPS capabilities to offer location information.

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Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career

Ask a Tech Teacher

Smartphone Choices A smartphone is almost as essential as a laptop in the modern landscape. Features beneficial for both students and professionals, like good camera quality for online presentations and robust performance for multitasking, should be considered.

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Smartphones in the classroom: friend or foe?

Neo LMS

But with today’s smartphones, can this still be the case? In the pre-smartphone era, when traditional mobile phones – or “dumb phones”, how I like to call them – ruled the world, students simply couldn’t use their phones for learning. Fast forward to the present day. Smartphones and the AIDA approach.

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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). (if they did, how sad is that?). They just have different opportunities and resources. Related Posts.

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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. To start, I downloaded the app to my smartphone and to my desktop. If we’re hacked, the bad guy can shut us out of those and divert the monies from them to himself.

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