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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Nevertheless, teens report that their own mental health is spiraling : Increasingly, they are anxious, depressed and wrestling with thoughts of suicide. As other measures improved, youth also reported feeling less anxiety and depressive symptoms. Are teens struggling because smartphone time is leading to less sleep ?

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Microchip Companies Create Child Care Programs to Win Federal Funds

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Also known as microchips, semiconductors are small wafers of circuitry used in computers and smartphones, as well as clean energy technologies like solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars. It’s a way to say: “Let the child care experts take this, and you be the experts on building semiconductors,” she said.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

At the start of the program, students are given an inexpensive smartphone with internet access, which they get to keep once they complete the program. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

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Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. “There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

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Students need to have an option to reply where they can briefly indicate why they were absent and, if they are in crisis, be automatically redirected to on-campus (ex: counselling center) and neighborhood assistance (immigration advocacy). A cracked screen, however, is a burden shouldered entirely by students.

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Babies and Mobile Devices. Where Are YOU on the issue?

Kevin Corbett

Everywhere I turn I see babies, toddlers and young children with tablets/ipads and smartphones. As a technology reporter and mommy blogger, you’d think the Fisher-Price Apptivity Seat for newborns — an infant seat with a holder for an iPad — would be something I appreciate. But, at what age is it appropriate? On the other side.