Triena Pitts
"Success is a Misstep in the Right Direction"
Social Studies. Writing. Iipads in the Classroom. Super Teacher Tools. Thinking Maps. Sites for Children. Videos. All Interactive Whiteboard Resources. Educational Technology. Educational Apps. The Honor Roll: 50 Must-Read K–12 Education IT Blogs. There’s no question that technology has transformed the classroom.
Thanks to the proliferation of mobile-computing devices, social media and online-learning resources, and classroom-based tools such as interactive whiteboards and document cameras, digital literacy has become increasingly important for today’s students. But developing strong technological skills is only half the battle; mastering the subject matter using these tools is equally important. The technologies that give the so-called 21st century classroom its power have been the subject of many K–12 blogs, with teachers, administrators, IT leaders, vendors and even parents weighing in on everything from how to fund these tools to how to effectively integrate them into the curriculum.
Parenting in 2012: The wisdom of Finn, 10. The wisdom of Finn, his dad, and a 17th-century French philosopher get me closer to the key problem – and solution – of living in this networked world.
By Anne Collier “The most imaginative” of Stephen and Fi’s three kids “in trying to invent reasons to go online,” Finn suddenly proposed a day a week of family “NST” (non-screen time) because, he thoughtfully proposed, “it would make us more imaginative as a family,” Stephen writes in The Guardian. They considered this together, as a family, because they’d been consciously trying to find the right balance of tech and everything else for several weeks. [See the David Bowie quote Stephen relates as having sparked that discussion; it reminds me of Prof. David Finkelhor's explanation for parental fears about the Internet's impact on kids which he termed "juvenoia. "]