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All Screens Are Not Created Equal
7/6/2015 9:34:58 PM
TechCrunch – Björn Jeffery Recently, Taiwanese lawmakers approved the "Child and Youth Welfare and Protection Act," making it illegal for children under the age of 18 to use electronic devices for excessive periods of time. In the United States, we don't have legislation restricting screen time, but organizations like the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood have addressed the issue of screen time by creating Screen-Free Week, an annual initiative that encourages families to unplug from technology for a week. But these actions ignore a fundamental principle: All screens are not created […]
Is 'Blended Learning' A Great New Thing or Just New Hype?
7/6/2015 9:28:17 PM
The Washington Post – Valerie Strauss If you haven't heard the claim that blended learning is the present and future of education, you haven't been listening. It is one of the central features of modern school reform, with proponents proclaiming that it helps personalize education, cuts costs and allows students to be more productive. Sounds great, doesn't it? But is it? Here's a look at the hype, the harm and the hope of blended learning, by Phil McRae is an executive staff officer with the Alberta Teachers' Association and adjunct professor […]
Flip Through MindMake On Flipboard
7/6/2015 8:44:00 AM
Come over and flip through some great articles and follow MindMake on Flipboard MindMake provides parents with tools to manage, monitor and optimize their childs online activities and content consumption. Our mission is to empower parents to create a safe online environment for their family and facilitate enriched development with personalized content recommendations. We cover a variety of topics in our Blog, utilizing multiple sources. Our focus is on trends in three primary categories: Education Technology Media Subcategories will range from education reform to pedagogical gamification and more. Come follow […]
Movie Theaters Branch Out To Host Video Game Contests And Other Events
7/4/2015 9:00:08 AM
LA Times – Siddharth Vodnala Salvador Solis Jr. stared intently at the movie screen in front of him, watching people scramble around dinosaurs. But the 11-year-old wasn’t at Westwood’s iPic theater to catch a matinee screening of the summer blockbuster “Jurassic World.” He and about 100 others filled the seats to play a video game called “Minecraft,” where they built dinosaurs in a virtual world controlled from their laptops and simulcast on the big screen. “I liked meeting people and playing ‘Minecraft’ with them,” Solis said. That’s exactly what theater owners […]
6 Habits of Highly Effective Parents
7/4/2015 8:00:30 AM
Early-Childhood-Education-Degrees.com 6 Habits of Highly Effective Parents There's no one way to raise a kid right. But there are a few things that many of the most successful parents do. Here are some habits that the best parents develop. Children's emotional/social/intellectual skills are like a muscle. Parents can exercise or atrophy them. Here are the 6 habits of highly effective parents: Talk to Your Kids Read to Your Kids Let Your Kids Play Limit Your Kids TV Time Foster the Little Artists Snuggle Up! Read More
Answers To Your Biggest Parenting Questions
7/3/2015 8:44:16 PM
Babble Editors Why won't my baby sleep?!Should I snoop on my teenager? Is my picky eater getting enough nutrients? When you become a parent, there's no shortage of questions or things to worry about. That's why Babble is partnering with Kids in the House. With over 9,000 videos from over 500 leading parenting experts, Kids in the House is the world's largest parenting video library. Each month, the experts at Kids in the House will offer advice to help you tackle your toughest parenting challenges — right here on Babble! […]
Using Games for Assessment
7/3/2015 6:43:45 PM
Edutopia – Rebecca Rufo-Tepper Using games for assessment is about more than tracking points. The past five years have seen a lot of growth in the digital games and assessment field, developing data collection engines that use sophisticated tools to measure student learning and provide teachers with targeted feedback (see GlassLab, for example). But one of the most common misconceptions we have run across is that all good learning games must assess learners within the game. The truth is that assessment happens around a game more often than it happens inside […]
Every Night, I Hit "The Parenting Wall"
7/2/2015 10:00:17 PM
Babble – Serge Bielanko Every evening, some time after dinner, I start to feel my mental grip loosening a bit. A wave of exhaustion laps up to the shores of my patience. It's been a long day, you know. Same as yesterday, probably the same as tomorrow. This is "the parenting wall." And every night, I hit it. Somewhere between getting woken up at the crack of friggin' dawn and my kids' 8:00 bedtime, my enthusiasm fades. The day begins with me Tasmanian Deviling around my house, getting my kids ready […]
Technology and The Evolution of Storytelling
7/2/2015 4:44:02 PM
Medium – John Lasseter It is such an exciting time to be a filmmaker. I do not believe the notion that the cinema is dying or dead because it's amazing what technology can do to the cinematic storytelling. What's great about film is it constantly reinvents itself. It started as a sheer novelty, those images moving on the screen. Then it went and every step of the way a new technology started being added — sound, color. What happens is the film grammar of storytelling evolves and changes as well. The technology […]
25 Interactive Apps for Kids
7/1/2015 3:42:34 PM
Trend Hunter – Jana Pijak From Charming Storytelling Apps to Music Making Kid Platforms These interactive apps for kids encourage learning and help children to develop communication skills while enhancing their memory, speech patterns and even their ability to read and write. Designed with an educational component in mind, these mobile platforms connect kids to beneficial content that aids in their personal growth and development. As children grow more exposed to technology from a young age, their natural intuition for mobile devices and interactive apps for kids illustrates just how far […]
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