EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

According to techcrunch.com , the average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 Smartphones trail at 45% (up from 39% in 2012). More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. Forty-two percent say it happens in classrooms. What can parents do?

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

How to fully engage students: The current and next generation of learners have never lived without smartphones, the internet, etc. Students need their schools to help them build SEL skills to prepare them for life outside the classroom. Key Challenges Identified by the Commission. These tools have become extensions of their body.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. What offers a wealth of literary resources?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. The standards for online learning during her junior year weren’t just lower than they had been in the classroom, she said, “the standards weren’t even there at all.”. “It This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

It feels natural to a generation groomed to presume that everything is calibrated to their needs and wants — whether it’s online shopping, news or math homework — and raised with smartphones in their hands. In the classroom, if you want, you can sit at a table. It sounds benign, and wonderful, to many parents. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article.

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