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Crunch the Numbers—New Data on Student Tech Use; Chromebook Predictions; And the Impact of Pandemic Relief Funds

eSchool News

. “Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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How students are using social media to change the world

eSchool News

Social media has gotten a bad rap. I’ve read lots of articles calling it addictive, mind numbing, and a waste of time. And that’s before we even get into Facebook, data privacy, and Cambridge Analytica. But the Parkland students aren’t the only ones using social media to do more than watch videos and memes.

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6 Ways Teacher-authors Protect Their Online Privacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

If we humans aren’t giving away our personal information (as we do on FB, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter and every other social media account), we’re having it stolen without our permission or knowledge and sold to those who mean us harm. I don’t share it much because it runs off of the data in my Cox internet account.

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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

Hapara

Also, many families do have mobile phones with online access, so giving learners tools that are mobile-friendly will support equitable access to instruction. Educate Learners need to be educated about copyright; reliable sources; appropriate communication for email, texting or social media; and how to safely shop online.

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Schools and Communities Together

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Mountains of data indicate that summer learning should be an entitlement, not an accident of birth, yet we continue to ignore this need and thereby resign ourselves to continuing failure in education,” Reville and Weiss write.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

While this blog is based on verifiable data, some readers may be unhappy with my interpretation. Social media has not shown an ability to “self correct” perhaps because by its very nature, the responses can only be positive and thus, there is no self-correcting mechanism built into its algorithm. Source: Wired.

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Five action steps to shrink the digital divide

eSchool News

The data shows that, nationally, more than 1 in 4 low-income survey respondents do not subscribe to home internet service. If an individual doesn’t go online, they are probably not going to see a social media ad. Cleveland, Ohio; and Charlotte, N.C. This rate is higher in cities with lower median household incomes.