COVID essentially changed our workplace and how education is being delivered drastically. This article talks about how kids are being affected when it comes to online Zoom meetings. It's important to realize kids need that social interaction amongst their peers. This article offers information on what you could do as a parent and educator to help the child through their online journey.
Do you know how to teach your kids about money? Think back to your childhood. Who taught you how to manage money? Who taught you to write a check? Who explained what compound interest is? You may have learned to write a check in Life Skills class in school or perhaps Mom and Dad showed you. And your parents may have even taught you to manage money. But I’m going to guess no one explained the more complicated stuff like compound interest. Heck, could you even explain it to your kids now? And yet, in many ways, our lives revolve
According to Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, these three factors — or PDF as she calls them — protect kids against a host of negative outcomes, strengthen resilience, and bolster students’ mental wellness and academic engagement.
Math teachers of older students sometimes struggle to get students to explain their thinking with evidence. It's hard to get kids in the habit of talking about how they are thinking about a problem when they've had many years of instruction that focused on getting the "right answer." That's why educators are now trying to get students in the habit of explaining their thinking at a young age. The Teaching Channel captured kindergarten and first grade teachers pushing students to give evidence for their answers in situations where there are several ways to think about a problem.
Just like in athletics where players and not coaches are called to demonstrate how a play is executed, student explanations in math help facilitate Vygotsky's zone of proximal development. Subsequently, a instructor's brief and strategically spaced explanations may produce greater attention and comprehension..
To paraphrase The Bard, what’s in a certification? According to the authors of a study on the privacy protections in children’s apps, perhaps not much.
A recent study, published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, looked at whether 237 apps certified compliant with the child privacy law, COPPA, do a better job safeguarding privacy than a larger sample of non-certified apps. Overall, they found little difference between apps that were certified and those that weren’t—and in some cases suggested certified apps may present even bigger security lapses.
"The first computer language I learned was ‘Basic’ on a BBC computer that didn’t even have a mouse. My final project at secondary school was to computerise a Karate Club to create online memberships and by then we used Macs. I was lucky that I went to a school where Computers was an actual subject. I then went on to learn ‘Modular-2’.
Just like desktops and laptops change, so do programming languages. This year, Dart and Flutter are two coding languages starting to gain traction.
Never heard of any of those languages? Nope, few have. You see where I’m going with this.
It doesn’t matter what computer programming language you learn, as they’ll probably change over time. This goes for adults as well as kids"
The term “digital immigrants” and “digital natives” is almost as annoying as the fights are about the terminology. These terms are often credited to Marc Prensky, and from when I have had the opportunity to have heard him speak, he doesn’t believe that kids have an innate ability to use technology over adults. They have not known a world with anything different. It made sense to me when I thought of my parents who came to Canada as immigrants. They knew one life and then thrust themselves into another. Where growing up in Canada, I have not known anything but what it is like to live in that country. It doesn’t mean that one group has the ability over another, but their past experiences do shape a lot of what their future looks like. Although my parents were immigrants to Canada, I saw them as less traditional than many people who lived here their entire life.
So then why do we continue to say things like, “Kids are sooooo much better with technology than adults are”? Yes, many kids have never known anything BUT a world with iPhones and YouTube, but the same adults have lived in that world the same amount of time kids have, and sometimes, even more. Add the years of experience in other parts of life; there is no reason that kids should be better at technology than adults.
The difference between kids that are deemed better than adults with technology is not some innate ability; it is their willingness to push buttons. To see what happens. To act on their curiosity.12 That’s it.
I’ve explored the science behind what makes kids happier, what type of parenting works best and what makes for joyful families. But what makes children…
Kids have a way of picking up information quickly (sometimes more quickly than we’d like...), but when explaining more abstract concepts like coding or computer programming, you might need something more than a lecture or some quick YouTube explainer. That’s what programmer Tomek Kaczanowski learned as he explained the skill to a group of 6-year-old children, among them his own daughter.
To make sure he got his message about programming across he came up with a few simple strategies that make explaining concepts to kids easy and engaging for both teacher and student.
Kids Invent Stuff is the YouTube channel where 5-11 year olds have the chance to get their invention ideas built by real engineers. We do this to give more primary school kids the chance to engage with real engineering projects.
Kids are encouraged to submit their ideas for inventions to solve a different challenge each month. Ideas can be submitted as drawings or videos uploaded below. The most creative inventions are showcased on our channel and each month one idea is built and tested on camera, with hilarious consequences.
Along with countless other sobering repercussions, COVID-19 jeopardizes kids’ physical activity at a time when the emotional benefits that exercise provides are sorely needed. With school closures, suspension of team practices and the imperative to stay home and away from others, children and teenagers (and their agitated parents) will have to find other ways to keep moving. This is especially important now, as a global pandemic with potentially catastrophic repercussions has a way of igniting fear.
Every year there are new tech toys for kids on the hottest most wanted list and parents run around in December trying desperately to get hold of sold out toys. If it moves, flies or makes noise, it’s sure to be a hit. Some of the ideas for new toys on the market will have you scratching your head and thinking what will they come up with next?
There are loads of interactive toys that are perfectly designed to minimise screen time, or even get them a little more involved with their favorite technology. From coding wands to robot unicorns, check out the list below of the hottest tech toys for kids in 2019.
(CNN)There is, inevitably, a gap between the parents we are and the parents we think we are. Not unlike algorithms, we rely on the past to inform our parenting decisions in the present. But this world keeps on turning, and the parenting present is never quite like the past.
In his new book, "The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World," Jordan Shapiro considers how this gap is playing out in our children's screen time. Many parents see themselves as dutiful, and at least occasionally wise, guides for their children. We help them make good decisions at school, with friends and on the sports field. But when it comes to digital lives, many kids tend to be steering the ship on their own.
When I was a kid, I dreaded the question. I never had a good answer. Adults always seemed terribly disappointed that I wasn’t dreaming of becoming something grand or heroic, like a filmmaker or an astronaut.
In college, I finally realized that I didn’t want to be one thing. I wanted to do many things. So I found a workaround: I became an organizational psychologist. My job is to fix other people’s jobs. I get to experience them vicariously — I’ve gotten to explore how filmmakers blaze new trails and how astronauts build trust. And I’ve become convinced that asking youngsters what they want to be does them a disservice.
A new generation of AI-powered robots could help children learn digital-age skills—and may even encourage empathy, says U of A machine learning expert.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman has a lot to say about the brain, and he’s done so in a lot of places. He’s written bestselling books, given a popular TED Talk, hosted a PBS series called “The Brain with David Eagleman” and teaches as an adjunct professor at Stanford. He’s also the founder of the Center for Science and Law, which studies how advances in brain science can shape the legal system (although his work also focuses on brain plasticity, or how we learn and absorb new information).
This week he gained yet another new audience: a room full of thousands of educators as the opening keynote for the ISTE 2018 conference in Chicago.
Alexander Graham Bell didn’t expect his telephone to be widely used for prank calls. And Steve Jobs was chary of children using his iThings.
But social media apps are appendages for tweens and teens. It’s one way they earn social currency. Below, a guide to what parents will (or should) be anxiously monitoring during this busy back-to-school season.
By the time my daughter was 14 years old, she had invented two life-saving devices and had one patent and one pending. People often ask how I “raised an inventor.” The real question, however, is: “Why doesn’t everyone understand that inventing is just a form of problem-solving that results in a physical solution?”
When my daughter, Alexis, started inventing as a young kid, I dismissed her creations as anything important. My teachers had taught me that inventors were geniuses like Edison, Bell, and Tesla. They also taught me that you need all those years of book learning in high school and college before you can do anything important like inventing something.
Alexis shattered that myth when she looked at me one day and said, “Mom, inventing is just problem-solving that results in a physical solution. I don’t understand why people think it’s so amazing. Inventing is human; we all can do it.”
Coding curricula is sweeping into classrooms across the country, thanks to programs such as Code.org. According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow students to apply specified computer science courses toward completion of mathematics, science or, as a foreign language. But is coding preoccupying the hearts and minds of students after school hours? This is the question that researchers at the MIT Media Lab are asking.
Looking for some good summer reading books for your kid? Epic has you covered. It provides a huge library featuring over 20.000 eBooks designed specifically for kids 12 and under. The library also includes audio books, comic books, graphic novels, educational videos, read-to-me, fiction and nonfiction books from leading publishers such as Scholastic, Macmillan, National Geography, and HarperCollins. Epic is free for elementary teachers and librarians in the US and Canada.
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