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Report: Teens feel ‘addicted’ to mobile devices

eSchool News

A new report reveals that half of teenagers said mobile device addiction impacts their daily lives. Half of teenagers surveyed in a new poll said they “feel addicted” to their mobile devices, and 59 percent of parents participating in the survey said they agree their children are addicted.

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How Technology Is Harming Your Child’s Development … Or Is It?

Securly

There are a wide variety of factors and silver linings accompanying this issue; thus, we have compiled the pros and cons of the top online activities (across various age groups) in the table below: Taken from Securly’s Managing Screen Time: The Student’s Perspective white paper.

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Will a Netflix Model Work for Textbooks?

Edsurge

Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. And what’s more, students can collaborate on the platform.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

If you need help from an expert, look for Google Certified innovators (like me) who can use that Google Group to get answers quickly from some of the best in the business. (You You have to be a Certified Innovator to have access to the group, but there are Google Plus groups out there too.). Blog Posts. E., & Hocutt, D.

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Using Video and Audio to Share Our Scholarship

ProfHacker

Books, peer-reviewed journal articles, op-eds, white papers, websites, documentaries, lecture videos, podcasts. Some students in our research noted that they watched video lectures when engaging in other activities – such as cooking – as a way to accommodate their studies in their busy lives.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

Edsurge

And back in 1998 he had even co-written a book complaining about how, in his view, multiculturalism was leading to group-think, and how he wanted to “reverse the tragic disintegration of American universities and restore true academic excellence.” They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed.

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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

Edsurge

Admissions officers may try to discern “grit,” a quality studied by Angela Duckworth , psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. I think people are really looking for more equitable ways of being able to identify good students, especially for groups of students who haven’t tested well.” They also simply may not work.

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