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"We’ve all heard it before, “Kids don’t know grammar anymore because all they do is text,” or “Today’s generation misses everything going on around them because they’re staring at their phones.” But a recent research study by UCLA warns the damage of too much screen time may be even worse than many of us imagined." 
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Here we address a handful of the factors that are holding students back from being ready to start college.
Beth Dichter's insight:
What are the issues that impact our ability to meet the new College and Career Readiness standards in the Common Core? This post explores a number of issues. For example: * Do standardized tests truly prepare students for college? * Are the expectations expected by high schools set at appropriate levels? * Do students have the appropriate social skills necessary for college? An additional seven issues are also explored in this post.
Tyler Crain's curator insight,
October 27, 2014 10:58 AM
very important if not wanting to do college but not be there. |
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''I recently had the opportunity to talk with the technology journalist Clive Thompson, author of Smarter Than You Think. You can read the full conversation here. From that chat, I distilled nine lessons from Clive on how we can improve our thinking, with and without technology." I recently had the opportunity to talk with the technology journalist Clive Thompson, author of Smarter Than You Think. You can read the full conversation here. From that chat, I distilled nine lessons from Clive on how we can improve our thinking, with and without technology."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you interested in learning some lessons on how to become more creative? This post provides nine lessons. Below are three of the lessons. Click through to learn more about what they entail as well as learn six more. * Spend significant chunks of time offline * Engage in "Cognitive Diversity": Do Something Mentally Different * Don't Isolate Yourself: Learn Social Thinking
Progressive training's curator insight,
December 2, 2013 1:29 PM
9 Ways To Be More Creative
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How often have you seen students sitting at a table together, but communicating via their cell phones. The eyes are on the screens, not their friends and classmates.
This post shares that technology is impactint students ability to read emotions. The next question to ask might be c"Can this change?"
The answer appears to be yes. For more information click through to the post.