eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

This gamified approach to supporting student well-being, called #WinAtSocial, empowers students to navigate their social world positively — including social media and technology — to fuel their health, happiness, and future success. Have the power to shape their everyday lives through the choices they make.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2024

I love how my students can edit together but can also view live changes on their smartphones using a QR code demo that is still private just to them and me. 00:03:34:10 – 00:03:55:05 Brian And they open their phones and oftentimes they're engaged with fast flowing social media apps.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. For example, a 2019 study found that social media use doesn’t harm adolescent well-being.

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Neo LMS

MAY 3, 2022

Melissa Turner, as PTO president of Washington Elementary decided to offer teachers time on their own to catch up on their work. Southland Elementary PTO leaders have been organizing parents for several years now to cover staff members’ classroom doors. Handwritten messages or a thank-you post on social media will do. .

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In a fairly short time, amazing innovations like iPads, laptops, and smartphones have opened up a new world of information for students of all ages. This is just as true for the elementary classroom as it is for the lecture hall. It’s no exaggeration to say that technology has transformed the classroom and brought enormous benefits.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

78% of elementary school students, 69% of middle school students, and 49% of high schoolers now use a tablet in their school life. The figures for smartphones are a bit lower, but this shouldn’t come as a surprise, since smartphones are not the most preferred mobile device to support students’ learning anyway.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . Be Cautious on Social Media. The consequence? Shockingly poor data hygiene. Make passwords complex — and long.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . Be Cautious on Social Media. The consequence? Shockingly poor data hygiene. Make passwords complex — and long.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . Be Cautious on Social Media. The consequence? Shockingly poor data hygiene. Make passwords complex — and long.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . Be Cautious on Social Media. The consequence? Shockingly poor data hygiene. Make passwords complex — and long.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . Be Cautious on Social Media. The consequence? Shockingly poor data hygiene. Make passwords complex — and long.

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Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . Be Cautious on Social Media. The consequence? Shockingly poor data hygiene. Make passwords complex — and long.

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Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . Be Cautious on Social Media. The consequence? Shockingly poor data hygiene. Make passwords complex — and long.

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Data Social Media Survey Student Data Privacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Just over half (53 percent) of students surveyed had security software on their computers, only 37 percent had smartphone protection and an even lower number, 14 percent, had some security installed on their tablets. . Be Cautious on Social Media. The consequence? Shockingly poor data hygiene. Make passwords complex — and long.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With remote learning in full swing for a little over half of American elementary and high school schools, students are spending even more time in front of a screen: By some accounts, students are getting up to 5 or 6 hours of additional technology use per day. Many experts point to the rise in smartphone/technology use as a major factor.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Just over half of children in the United States — 53 percent — now own a smartphone by the age of 11. These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. . Seven in 10 teen girls use social media every day.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 15, 2019

According to the Pew Research Center , “Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online ‘almost constantly’”. At the same time, social media platforms can have a good or bad impact on mental health depending on how they are used. How much time did you spend without social media?

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2023

For a generation who has never known life without smartphones, students live in a parallel online world equally consequential to their real lives. The ubiquity of phones and social media has always been accepted as a double-edged sword, but lately, it seems as if extreme violence on the internet is only a few clicks away at all times.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. 00:01:25:09 – 00:01:50:19 Debbie Tannenbaum This is my 25th year in education, my sixth year as a tech coach, and during my first year as a tech coach, I'm in elementary school. So tell us a little bit about your journey.

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Tech Helpful

AUGUST 23, 2018

A few years ago a new family moved into our school community with a young elementary son named Daniel. Now, as a high school student he chooses to be different than his peers when it come to social media. Thanks to my cousin, I am honest with myself about my lack of self-control where social media is concerned.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 28, 2021

We create a list of creative writing prompts for kids to improve different writing styles and multiple topics that will resonate with a child in elementary school to a teen in high school. At what age should a child get a smartphone and why? Kids should be able to use social media supervised or unsupervised.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Children with smartphones have unfiltered access to the Internet unless their parents make a decision to filter. Why Do Students Need Protection on their SmartPhones? 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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As more of our lives are consumed with digital technology — social media, texting and smartphones — is it any wonder that our children are growing up with electronic gadgets as companions? And, ownership of smartphones — mobile devices with an internet connection — has tripled in recent years among young people.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Is that even remotely possible in the age of social media? Many people believe that social media and smartphones have diminished our reading abilities. The need for better early childhood and elementary school interventions is well documented, but that does not imply giving up on adolescents.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 5, 2015

For example, our elementary level administrative team houses all of our minutes, spreadsheets, and schedules in Google Drive. These images are also accessible within Google+, a social media platform I am finding more helpful to me as a professional every time I use it. Sometimes I need to bring certain documents up quickly.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

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. Generation Z students may be digital natives, easily connecting with friends and family on social media apps, but that doesn’t mean they understand how to use the internet as a tool.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Biochemistry can be elementary. Students generally learn about moles, atoms, compounds and the intricacies of the periodic table in college, but Daniel Fried is convinced kids can learn complex biochemistry topics as early as elementary school. Gen Z may walk through life glued to smartphones. Photo: Gabriela Fuentes.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes. How do you make middle school English more exciting and engaging for a generation that has known what a smartphone is from nearly birth? Over 1000 words.

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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The easy access to information due to their smartphone in their back pocket does not make them truly knowledgable.just able to regurgitate facts.or You would be surprised how often students are surprised by being held accountable for things they do on social media at home. As my mom would say, "I knew enough to be dangerous."

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

She doesn’t have a smartphone or use social media, so it’s difficult to connect with peers. When kids transition from elementary to middle school, sometimes their grades drop because of all the changes they experience, researchers say. Now that’s not possible. It’s) weird,” she said. And it’s quiet now.”

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Smartphones have been around for 10 years now, but in education, the shifts are vastly different within our classrooms. They consume social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. By connecting through social media your educators and students can see how the work they do matters. The 7 shifts: 1.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 9, 2017

With kids getting smartphones and other devices at younger and younger ages, it's more important than ever to teach them how to use the internet safely. Whether kids are using social media, searching for information, gaming, or emailing, they should have some basic understanding of how to protect themselves online.

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eSpark

APRIL 25, 2016

Although parent involvement in schools looks different with an 11th grader than it does with a kindergartner, the correlation between parent engagement and student achievement continues throughout elementary school, middle school and even high school.

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 2, 2015

“Learn anytime, anywhere” is proudly proclaimed when educators effuse all the benefits of learning via online courses and through social media such as Twitter. What didn’t make the cut: My laptop, my smartphone, and anything school-related. Like a drug, my wife’s smartphone was the provider.

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MindShift

APRIL 21, 2020

Between closed schools, social isolation, food scarcity and parental unemployment, the coronavirus pandemic has so destabilized kids’ support systems that the result, counselors say, is genuinely traumatic. Sarah Kirk, an elementary school counselor in Tulsa, Okla., The same holds true for many elementary school counselors.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

He first carried out this vision as an elementary and middle school teacher before later becoming the principal of a high school on the east side of Indianapolis. And I think we've got a lot of lessons to learn from how we've kind of dealt with social media over the last ten years.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

“Teenagers need nine hours a night, middle-schoolers need 10, and elementary students need 11. I’m not anti-social media, but it makes a tremendous difference for teens to not have a phone and computer in the bedroom at night. Caffeine doesn’t make up for that.”. Technology is very hard on sleep,” said Damour. Growing Up Brave.

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