Digital Promise
APRIL 23, 2019
Like many folks in today’s workforce, I spend a significant amount of time in front of a computer screen with my smartphone close by, responding to a flurry of emails, calls, texts, and calendar invitations. How ideas from the Nonprofit Technology Conference can positively impact adult learning and workforce development initiatives.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 19, 2020
Before the shutdown, in English class, if he and classmates were writing a story he’d normally workshop his writing with others. She doesn’t have a smartphone or use social media, so it’s difficult to connect with peers. I don’t think I’m learning as well as I was when we had to go to school.”.
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Connecting 2 the World
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
I was asked to give a presentation on improving interaction for online courses. The answer lies in research that has been done in online learning, social psychology, distance or online education, communication (including interpersonal, group, and CM communication), and even organizational development.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 22, 2018
Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. It’s not just young people who are smartphone obsessed.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
If every child had a computer or iPad, she could log into a customized cyberclassroom and learn at her own pace. 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.
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