15 Surprising Facts About Mobile Phones And Families. When you step into your school this fall, your eyes won’t be playing tricks on you. Pretty much every student, starting at the age of about 12, has a mobile phone . About a third of those students have a smartphone. The ‘ Generation Text ‘ is here and they expect you to keep up with them. That’s according to a new study commissioned by AT&T and conducted by GfK. They did a national study with 1,000 parents and 500 children ages 8-17. This study found some good news (nearly all kids think it’s OK to have parents control phone usage) and some bad news (1 in 5 kids have been bullied via text message).
At any rate, this study comes at a critical time for students (and teachers) heading back to class. Kids start receiving mobile phones in grade school Kids receive their first mobile phone, on average, at age 12.1. Mobile issues are very real for kids More than half (53%) of kids report that they have ridden with someone who was texting and driving. Kids are willing to accept rules.
Scientific Inquiry Among the Preschool Set. Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature. How Do You Empower Child Readers with Choice. Nine useful lists for educators. CEM Tweeters provide some of ed-tech’s best resource lists on getting connected and digital literacies By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor Read more by Meris Stansbury August 17th, 2012 EducationWorld has a list of five must-follow users to help you get in the pinning groove.
As part of Connected Educator Month (CEM), social media-savvy teachers and education professionals are using Twitter, blogs, and publications to get information out as quickly and easily as possible, and are using lists in many ways. Browsing CEM’s Twitter, #CE12, the editors at eSchool News have highlighted some of the most popular lists Tweeted, as well as some that may be most helpful to our readers. From educator-recommended apps designed for specific subsets of 21st century literacies to 14 of the best ed-tech Tweeters, and from the best CEM speaker quotes to the 10 technology commandments for connected learners, these lists are classroom-tested and educator-approved.
[In no particular order] Appealing Apps for Educators: Celebrating Connected Educator Month - iPhone app article - Lucy Gray. Connected Educator Month is a month-long social media extravaganza, targeting not only U.S. educators, but teachers and administrators around the world as well. During August, educators have had the opportunity to participate in Twitter chats, webinars and Google Hangouts while collectively exploring this brave new world for teaching and learning.
The idea is that together we can improve teaching and learning for our students via virtual connections and professional development events. Karen Cator, the Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, often defines “highly connected teachers” as those connected to data, resources, and to each other. Effective educators are empowered educators, and social media plays a significant role in this process. For more information about Connected Educator Month, make sure to check out the Twitter stream conversations and edublogger Stephanie Sandifer’s great posts on connected learning. Facebook (free) 10 Education Blogs You Should Know About. What’s the one thing that is making you read this post right now? Are you looking for interesting classroom technology, current trends in edtech, or just trying to have a laugh? That’s what Edudemic offers on a daily basis but we have a slew of other friends out there who you should know about as well. We haven’t included ourselves on this list since you’re reading this on Edudemic and already a HUGE fan I’m sure.
In any case, help grow your RSS reader list and your PLN at the same time by checking out the following blogs that cover everything from education news to tech tips. Want to let us know about your site? Launched in 2004, this Washington DC-based daily online publication dishes daily news and analysis from college to university level in the US. The blogger has himself been a teacher for eight years and Richard Bryne is now hell-bent on sharing stuff that can help teachers make their classes interactive.
The blogger calls himself an educator, consultant and author. How Japan Introduced 21st-Century Global Skills - Global Learning. National School Reform Faculty<sup>®</sup> 12 Reasons We Need To Reinvent The School Desk. Added by Jeff Dunn on 2012-09-27 Students young and old frequently complain about the quality of the desks and chairs provided on campus, yet it remains one of the more overlooked issues. A pity, because poor ergonomics and comfort can actually lead to poor health, and poor health leads to missed classes and heightened medical expenditures once career time rolls around.
Maybe it’s about time educators, schools, and districts reconsidered their approach towards how they set up classrooms. The positive outcomes might very well prove surprising. Sitting increases the risk of a heart attack : Small children probably don’t suffer from the same risk of heart attacks as their parents, but healthy habits stick better when introduced early. A 13-year study by the Pennington Biomedical Research Center discovered that, of the 17,000 adults researched, 54% spent the majority of the day sitting. This is a post from our content partners at Online Degrees . Comments are closed.