Education

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New AAP Guidelines on Screen Time

According to the new guidelines created by the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding screen time for adolescents, “Pediatricians can also help parents to become effective advocates with their children’s schools for media literacy education and interactive learning-effective programming. ….” and “Educators can play a key role in teaching media literacy […]

Poison Apple: Technology Fads Make Your Kids Dumber

As featured on Dr. Richard E. Cytowic’s blog on Psychology Today: The Fallable Mind https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-fallible-mind/201508/poison-apple-technology-fads-make-your-kids-dumber  Your kids are getting dumber. We didn’t want to be the ones to tell you, but someone had to. The saddest part of this is that your kids are getting dumber because of what is going on […]

A Perfect Storm in Education

As two teachers who have spent a combined 30 years in the classroom, we can tell you there has been a significant change in today’s students. They’re dumber. When compared to their early millennial counterparts, modern students (aka digiLearners) are significantly lacking in the areas of critical and creative thinking, […]