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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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Crunch the Numbers:New Data on Student Wellbeing, the Skills Gap Crisis, and Tech Usage in Utah

eSchool News

The Social Institute , whose mission is to empower millions of students to navigate their social world — including social media and technology — in positive, healthy, and high-character ways, released its 2024 Student Insights Report: How Social Media, Tech, and Current Events Impact Student Well-Being.

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Mindful Tracking Cookie Policies Improve K—12 Data Security

EdTech Magazine

Mindful Tracking Cookie Policies Improve K—12 Data Security. Current web browsing policies in K–12 schools may be allowing third parties to collect and sell student data , creating a need for schools to update and maintain safe internet use protocols. Find more best practices for maintaining student data privacy!

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Balance the Delivery

Ask a Tech Teacher

Unaccounted time for social media and gaming usage. It worked until our site eventually became one of the first sites to roll out a one-to-one policy with Chromebooks. This can be done relatively quickly with the help of a form to gather data. Four to six hours in front of a computer for instruction.

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Technology is Here to Stay: Now What?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Applications on readily available for Chromebooks, IOS, and Microsoft platforms. Although not a data scientist, I documented how the students interacted with the platform. Finally, once purchased, I followed social media posts on the product’s upgrades, especially if the product incorporated some type of social-emotional component.

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My most used/favorite Apps and how I use them

Educational Technology Guy

Social Media - Google+ , Twitter , and Facebook - Google+ is my go to for education and technology resources, connections and sharing. Hardware- HTC One Android Smartphone, Nexus 7 tablet, Chromebook -- access every app and piece of data on any of my devices, anywhere. I go subscribe to the site and blogs and magazine.

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Tech 101 for Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily. You won’t store files on it or data–just use it to start your computer in about a third of the time it normally would. BTW, if you use a Chromebook, there’s no need for this. Backup Data Files. Clean out your temp files.