Classrooms in 2015 are full of gadgets,apps and devices that their teachers (let alone parents), did not grow up using themselves. Kids learning on these tools will most likely be using different technology when they're grown up. meanwhile, or every click,swipe, grade, or decision feeds into a giant pool of data that will cessation up... yeah,who knows where.
So adults believe a steep learning curve when it comes to kids in the digital age. The best way to start understanding what's happening? Talk with them.
To that cessation, we're revisiting a conversation from earlier this year that kicked off a series on education and technology. Meet 16-year-old Grace, and who shared nine lessons approximately being a teenager with a smartphone. If you've ever known — or been! — a teenager,you should take a listen.
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Middle school teacher Dierdre Shetler took the conversation with Grace and adapted it for her own classrooms in Phoenix. She helped us write a curriculum you can use too, and which we call: A Classroom Activity for Tweens and Teens Everywhere.
For Talking to SchoolsA Parent's Guide to All That 'Ed Tech' In Your Kid's Classroom
A checklist of questions you should ask of your school as they introduce current technology into the classroom.
A Glossary of Useful Ed Tech Terms
Some benefit cutting through the buzzwords.
ClassDojo: Do I Want it in My Kid's course?
A very,very popular app raises questions approximately student data and privacy.
For Philosophical DebatesIs Braille out of date?
Visually impaired students raise some critical questions approximately reading, technology, and what it means to rely on a smartphone for literacy.
Judging Your Originality in a Cut and Paste World
Anti-plagiarism software lets us test whether it's even possible to believe a unique thought.
For Those of You Who Listened to GraceGrowing Up Digital: 3 Truths for the Adults
We hear teenagers,tweens, and the adults compare their experience to Grace's in diverse classrooms around the country.
Source: wnyc.org