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What We Can Learn from Steve Jobs
…rings. For about 15 minutes I was Steve Jobs’ best friend — I had his home phone number, his cell phone number, etc. He was just like a little kid with ADHD — calling me about every five minutes to see whether Sesame Workshop had made a decision yet. I do believe that there is a connection between innovation and ADHD. Steve Jobs was wise enough to surround himself with people who could follow up and follow through on the many, MANY ideas that his…
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Parent Voices: Doubts, then Excitement on Texts to Promote Literacy
…lightly fewer than the 90 percent of all American adults who now have cell phones. The program aligns closely with the Ounce’s mission to close the early achievement gap by supporting the parent-child relationship as the foundation for all learning. “Our parents don’t have very much time or resources,” says Ann Hanson, manager of research and policy initiatives at the Ounce. “Those everyday moments of learning or interaction are critical. We’re tu…
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Keeping Family Connections Alive with Technology
…ceTime has become gospel in our house, with the kids running to answer the phone and give updates on how their days are going. Flickr / Zoe And I know that the joy is reciprocated on the other end as well. The grandparents love participating in the kids’ daily lives, even the mundane, “What are you having for dinner?” conversations. It’s funny because as of Christmas 2013, my parents had no “i” devices—email and Google searches were just about the…
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Four ways to tell if an educational app will actually help your child learn
…ng, not distracting Imagine you just opened the refrigerator door and your phone rings. When you get off the phone, you have absolutely no recollection of why you were in the refrigerator in the first place. These kinds of distractions take your attention away from what is happening around you, yet surprisingly these kinds of “bells and whistles” are precisely what many app developers include as “enhancements” in many apps. A study comparing readi…
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The Internet Is For All of Us
…n cut off in the past year. One in five say too many people share the same phone and cannot get done what they need to get done. The report is a powerful insight on how families living in poverty deal with access to technology and the Internet. The goal the researchers had was “to shine a spotlight on an important segment of the US population that too often goes unnoticed as we celebrate the progress and promise afforded by new technologies.” I ad…
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Joan Ganz Cooney Center Calls For New National Strategy to Invest in Mobile Learning And a Digital Teacher Corps
…al communication. More than half of the world’s population now owns a cell phone and experts project that people will use cell phones as their primary means of accessing the Internet by the year 2020. However, most educators and parents have been skeptical, until now, about mobile devices’ value in learning. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop issued a new study today documenting the untapped potential of mobile learning. The report, dr…
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Into the Digital Future: Navigating the Cyber Frontier with Julie Inman Grant
…they claim that they’re the only two kids in sixth grade that don’t have a phone, and I’m actually inclined to believe them. They do have access in the house. They use my account when they’re trying to connect with friends, so I can see everything that’s being said, but you know it’s really hard not to bring what I see and what my investigators see every day with child sexual abuse, material, including self-generated content. Seeing that the age o…
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DML Daily Dispatch – Day 2
…hildren often communicate physically, through hand gestures or kissing the phone, which does not translate over the telephone. Young children have not yet mastered the full scope of basic communication such as giving long verbal responses to questions or asking questions of the other party. Skype, while gaining popularity for long distance communication, does enable communication through physical gestures (what Grandma doesn’t love to see her todd…
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Into the Digital Future: Gaming for Good with Susanna Pollock
…that means. But I think when it comes to, this argument about banning cell phones in schools right cell phones is a piece of technology, there’s content that comes through it. Which can either be, inappropriate for a student can lead to distractions in schools. All of that is, is exists. It’s there. But I feel that the conversation is, um and many people are saying, the answer is to, ban cell phones from schools outright. And I think we miss an op…
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Tech Parenting Isn’t a Moment. It’s a Cycle.
…y tend to cluster around moments of acquisition: When should a child get a phone? Is this app appropriate? Is it too early … or already too late? These questions matter. But parenting around technology is not episodic or occasional; it is constant. Today’s families are navigating a world in which digital tools shape nearly every aspect of childhood, including learning, play, creativity, friendship, and identity. A smartwatch may be a precursor to…