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Dealing with distraction with the HELP of digital environments

December 17, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Learning how to be present, attend to others, know what's important in a given moment and stay focused on it has always been a vital part of growing up. "The ability to focus is a secret element to success that often gets ignored," according to an article in Mind/Shift that cites the work of psychologist Daniel Goleman, an author of a book about this. Because this piece about distraction leads … [Read more...] about Dealing with distraction with the HELP of digital environments

Filed Under: education technology, gaming, School & Tech, Social Media, videogames, virtual worlds Tagged With: age of distraction, BYOT, Daniel Goleman, digital environments, ed tech, education technology, Marianne Malmstrom, MineCraft, mobile learning, Tim Clark, virtual environments

Mobile learning & edugames taking off worldwide

August 26, 2013 By Anne 3 Comments

Whether it's the chicken or the egg – the device or the edugames – fueling the growth isn't completely clear, but "tablets are proliferating everywhere across the planet," said Sam Adkins, head of research for market research firm Ambient Insight, at the Serious Play Conference in Redmond, Wash., last week. He was referring to mobile learning – especially on tablets, where school's concerned – and … [Read more...] about Mobile learning & edugames taking off worldwide

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Research, Social Media Tagged With: Akash, Ambient Insight, Android, apps, cellphones, educational games, edugames, games, iPad, iPhone, market research, mobile learning, Samsung, tablets

Unboxing learning

September 27, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

Last spring I had the privilege and fun of spending a whole class period with middle school students talking about their favorite uses of technology. Of course there were about as many preferences as there were students, so I'll just zoom in on one student whose interest I felt best illustrated how very individual and diverse digital tech use is. He loves shoes. I can't remember the brands, but … [Read more...] about Unboxing learning

Filed Under: education technology, gaming, School & Tech, Social Media Tagged With: BYOT, education, education technology, Flat Classroom, gaming, It Takes a Guild, learning, Massively Minecraft, MineCraft, mobile learning, online games, World of Warcraft, World Peace Game, WoW in School

Some mobile learning myth-busting

September 4, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

As I read "5 myths about mobile learning," I realized how literal we are in our assumptions – and how much we base them on a technology's physical properties. When you really think about it – or compare the assumptions to the reality – it can make you smile (if you don't let yourself get discouraged by the resistance these assumptions symbolize). The first few myths educator Nicky Blockly shares … [Read more...] about Some mobile learning myth-busting

Filed Under: education technology, mobile, School & Tech Tagged With: 21st century learning, cellphones, classroom, digital media, education technology, mobile learning, mobile technology, school, teaching

Obama administration’s e-textbook push

February 3, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

It's not just a cost-cutting measure, apparently and thankfully. In an effort to get "every US school to accelerate the transition to digital textbooks," the Obama administration is asking states to "modify the textbook adoption process" so that K-12 schools can use taxpayer funding that used to go paper textbooks to purchase Kindles, iPads, and other devices and the software that goes on them, … [Read more...] about Obama administration’s e-textbook push

Filed Under: education technology, School & Tech Tagged With: digital textbooks, e-textbook, education policy, education technology, FCC, mobile learning, US Department of Education

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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