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Into the Digital Future: Teens, Technology, and Trust with Amanda Lenhart
…have and it becomes a really powerful draw. So if you can take everybody’s phone or most people’s phones out where people aren’t generating more notifications, you also can draw down some of them. The intensity of the desire to even look at it. So I think there’s a, that strikes me as a very powerful reason to have limitations on phones. The flip side of that though is, there’s a lot of reasons to give kids the phones as well, right? And I, again,…
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Into the Digital Future: Raising Teenagers in a Digital Age with Dr. Hina Talib
…ar a lot of parents coming at me, telling them that they can’t be on their phone. Telling me I need to take the phone away. You know, it’s a consequence, right, that I can take the phone away. And it’s sort of like, well, what are you doing with your phone? And if you’re if you’re telling them to take the phone away the hour before bedtime and charge it outside in the hallway. Where’s your phone? And so it’s really, you know, and when you’re speak…
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Write a Story On a Phone? Are you Kidding?
…their kids can watch videos and play games. So, let’s increase the set of offerings. Just as parents can choose to stock good food in their house, they can choose to stock good apps on their phone. The next time their kid picks up their phone, there can be a range of fun, social, and educationalactivities for them to do. So, how can we get there?…
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Into the Digital Future: Preventing Digital Harassment with Trisha Prabhu
…rnet. There was no thought process of it. Not enough to just give people a phone or give young people a phone. We need to give them a framework with which to use that phone. We need to give them a toolkit. We need to give them the language. So a lot of what we do in schools is creating language around things that some young people or adults would think is obvious. But a lot of young people, often especially at a young age, don’t really have the to…
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Q&A: Susan Hildreth
…and city librarian of San Francisco Public Library, as well as on staff at Sacramento Public Library, the Placer County Library, the Benicia Public Library and the Yolo County Library. She has also served as president of both the Public Library Association and the California Library Association. Ms. Hildreth provides a unique perspective on children’s literacy in the digital age, drawing from her distinguished 30+ year career as a leader in public…
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Common Sense Media Expands to Reach Latino Families
…se conducted focus groups with Latino parents and teenagers in Chicago and Sacramento that revealed some of the disparities in technology access many families contend with. One of the conclusions stated, “Parents say that their own lack of experience with the Internet and technology creates concerns and makes them want to supervise their children, but this proves difficult because they can’t all the time. Students lament that their parents’ lack o…
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Remarks at Digital Equity Forum (video)
…decades, the program has helped tens of millions of Americans afford basic phone service. But in the digital era having a phone doesn’t necessarily mean you’re connected. That’s why, last June, the Commission initiated a proceeding to recast Lifeline for the broadband era. At a time when our economy and lives are increasingly moving online, it doesn’t make sense that the Lifeline program focuses only on 20th century narrowband voice service. Low-i…
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Making the iPad a Friend – Instead of Foe – for Summer Reading
…effort to talk about what I am reading to my kids. When I am reading on my phone, I literally announce “I am reading my book on my phone now.” Then, I make a effort to talk about what I am reading with my kids. It’s actually been fascinating to hear how interested they are. A teacher works with a rising first grader with the Hoot Reading app. Click for video. Make screen time reading time: If your child is like my son, and constantly asking to “pl…
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Into the Digital Future: Teens, Tech, and Emotions with Dr. Lisa Damour
…hey’re losing so much in terms of social interaction and learning when the phones are in those spaces. And then they can have their phones on either side of that. When I talk to teenagers about, phones going away during the school day what I hear from them is, we’re okay with it if it is totally universal, but if one kid has their phone and I don’t, okay, fine. For kids who are privileged enough to get to go to sleep away camps, where it’s a unive…