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Smartphone Detox: How Teens Can Power Down In A Wired World

MindShift

If the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov were alive today, what would he say about smartphones? Pavlov originally set off to study canine digestion. That’s exactly what’s happening with smartphones, says David Greenfield , a psychologist and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

She has taught English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film, Journalism, and enjoys writing, illustrating, and cooking in her free time. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do. 00;11;23;22 – 00;11;32;11 Dan Fitzpatrick It's going to be huge.

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Teens and Tech: Distinguishing Addiction from Habit

MindShift

The closest it comes is something called “Internet Gaming Disorder,” and that is listed as a condition for further study, not an official diagnosis. There are brain-imaging studies of the effects of screen time, he says. That’s the Bible of the psychiatric profession in the United States. Seeking treatment.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? As a professor who studies technology integration in K-12 schools, I can say the answer is yes but with some critical caveats." Today, just about everybody uses it for everything.

EdTech 150
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? As a professor who studies technology integration in K-12 schools, I can say the answer is yes but with some critical caveats." Today, just about everybody uses it for everything.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

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. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Verge : “ France bans smartphone use in schools.” Via the New Haven Independent : “The school board [in New Haven , Connecticut ] will allow Yale University continue with a study on students struggling to read, but tighter rules will be in place for any future research.” National) Education Politics.