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Tag: Millenials

  • Jack replaces Jack – ethernet for Daniels that is

    ArsTechnica has an interesting article about how Internet addiction is starting to show up in schools. I can see how the ability to connect with others, and continually satiate curiosity on any number of topics can be addictive. So it’s something to maybe think about as we move toward ubiquitous computing. People are addicted to…

  • Recess threatened?

    Cog Daily has an article on how recess is becoming structured and as often as not cut out completely. Even though it’s not talking about gaming like I’ve written about, it still talking about the importance of unstructured play. If you look at how kids learn many of the tools that they use in their…

  • Online Safety

    Wesley Fryer has posted a couple of good articles (chat lingo c/o Cox and online dangers) that are looking to be good resources for Internet safety. I find it frightening, the number of teachers out there that are just ignoring online safety for seemingly petty reasons. This may be because of their personal ignorance to…

  • From the mouths of babes

    If you are reading this, you are already a geek that will appreciate to some degree this story – Coming into the office this morning, I passed some tots with their mothers on their way to the Child Study Center. One of them noticed that I was wearing my white iPod earbuds and said “iPod!”…

  • Old posts on these new teens

    Mr. MacKenty posted an article that talked about “What does technology mean to the modern child?”. He surmised that teens use technology for information, entertainment and communication. Which seems to be what cell phones are very good at – getting movie times, playing games and communicating (SMS, MMM and that old style thing “calling”). A…