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No Child Left Offline: Confronting the Mental Health Crisis in the Smartphone Era

Shake Up Learning

The post No Child Left Offline: Confronting the Mental Health Crisis in the Smartphone Era appeared first on Shake Up Learning. But my bottom line has always been learning. This blog is about learning, not just about technology. Here are Haidt’s recommendations: No smartphones before high school (roughly age 14).

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Smartphone Photography Tips and Apps

The CoolCatTeacher

Smartphones are everywhere. Teachers are starting to use smartphones for photography, video and art. Meri Walker, the iPhone Art Girl, gives us the essential smartphone photography tips and smartphone photography apps that we need. You can: Divide the screen into learning zones. Smartphone Photography Apps.

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

When People Fail: Will The Integrity Gap Cause a Learning Gap? Ethical students will be able to learn better and faster than ever. There will be a new divide — the learning and performance divide created between those who have integrity and those who do not. It will help them with homework, for sure. And so are we.

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6 Ways Teacher-authors Protect Their Online Privacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

If we humans aren’t giving away our personal information (as we do on FB, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter and every other social media account), we’re having it stolen without our permission or knowledge and sold to those who mean us harm. To start, I downloaded the app to my smartphone and to my desktop.

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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Are teens struggling because smartphone time is leading to less sleep ? Subscribe today!

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8 Best Countdown Apps

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It works great on every device, from smartphones to personal computers. It works with social media, messages or emails." Age: 4+ Compatibility: iOS (iPhone, Pod Touch). Age: 4+ Compatibility: iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac) and Android. Age: 4+ Compatibility: iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac).

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Deciding At What Age To Give A Kid A Smartphone

MindShift

So what’s a parent to do when a child, possibly a very young child, asks for a smartphone? We hear that smartphones can be addictive, that screen time can hurt learning , but can’t these minicomputers also teach kids about responsibility and put educational apps at their tiny fingertips?