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5 Home and Smart Phone Filtering Options for Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

So, for example, I know that 20% of the time, they’re surfing and on social media, while 10% of the time they’re actually playing online games. Mike Daugherty is a husband, father, author, technology director, Google Innovator, and possible Starbucks addict. It really gives you a breakdown. Bio as submitted.

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What are Good Tech Goals for Students?

Ask a Tech Teacher

But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. It’s the pencils and books of our digital world. The metric for measuring technology skills isn’t a rubric with a list of skills (i.e., Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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Screen Time in School: Finding the Right Balance for Your Classroom

Graphite Blog

In Redefinition, digital tools enable a complete reimagining of the learning activity. Imagine students connecting with authors online or on social media to chat about their writing process and word choice as part of researching and creating their own vocabulary lists to study. Bring media balance into your curriculum.

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Connecting Parents to Student’s Digital Lives

The CoolCatTeacher

Mike: We’ve started a weekly email to about 400 parents so far, where we’re covering topics like digital citizenship, security, filtering, social media — everything that really relates to how students should use technology today. Mike: And again, my whole hope is that the project will help educate parents.

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Why schools shouldn't ban smartphones

Learning with 'e's

I was asked to write an opinion piece for the Western Morning News earlier this week as a response to the comments from Ofsted and their advisers on the use of technology in schools. Many teachers are left wondering whether personal technologies such as smartphones actually have a place in education and what risks and threats accompany them.