Joanne Jacobs
Screen-time limits linked to cognitive skills
Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 29, 2018
- 2 min
GenZ prefer YouTube videos to books
Generation Z — aka post-Millenials –prefers learning from YouTube and videos rather than printed books, reports Lauraine Genota in Ed...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 9, 2018
- 1 min
Starting a school — slowly
In a New Orleans charter high’s first year, students beat the state school performance average, writes Matt Candler, a board member, on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 22, 2018
- 2 min
Digital readers crave excitment
She cites cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 22, 2018
- 2 min
Look lively: Big Brother is watching
A Chinese high school installed cameras that monitor students’ facial expressions, reports Don Lee in the Los Angeles Times. Artificial...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 2, 2018
- 2 min
New schools end up like old schools
High-tech schools of the future end up looking a lot like schools of the past, writes Larry Cuban in Regression to the Mean, Part 1 and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 1, 2018
- 3 min
A shiny new school fails
San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 20, 2018
- 2 min
Tech that monitor kids’ feelings: Creepy or … ?
technology to monitor students’ feelings is sparking privacy concerns, reports Benjamin Herold on Education Week. No kidding. All school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16, 2018
- 1 min
Not so smart no more
IQ scores are falling, at least for Norwegian men, writes Scottie Andrew in Newsweek. For most of the 20th century, IQ scores have risen...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15, 2018
- 1 min
The Incredibles are back
Incredibles 2 is a winner, writes Tyler O’Neil on PJ Media. The family of superheroes works together to defeat Screenslaver, who “uses...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 10, 2018
- 2 min
Middle school to manufacturing
Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning math, science and programming — and competing in contests such as MakerMinded to expose them to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 7, 2018
- 1 min
45% of teens are online nearly all the time
Forty-five percent of teens say they’re online nearly all the time, reports Pew Research Center. Ninety-five percent own or have access...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 29, 2018
- 1 min
Alexa, teach my son to be polite
Nobody says “please” or “thank you” to Alexa, writes Ken Gordon in The Atlantic. He worries that the ability to command a digital...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 21, 2018
- 2 min
The little laptop that couldn’t
In 2005, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) promised to deliver rugged $100 laptops to poor children around the world, linking them to the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 20, 2018
- 2 min
VR is powerful — is it dangerous for kids?
Virtual reality technology, which creates an interactive, immersive experience, is “arguably the most powerful medium in history,” writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 8, 2018
- 2 min
Connected, dependent — and distracted
Fortnite Mobile, a trendy free game, is distracting students and overloading schools’ wifi, reports Patricia Hernandez on Kotaku....
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 22, 2018
- 2 min
Udacity ends nanodegree job guarantee
Udacity has ended its get-a-job-or-your-money-back guarantee for its Nanodegree Plus program, reports Lindsay McKenzie at Inside Higher...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23, 2018
- 3 min
Screen waivers
Upper-middle-class parents are worried about screen time, writes Michael J. Petrilli. They worry about attention deficit disorder,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min
Can schools police social media? Should they?
A California girl was suspended from the basketball team for retweeting Snoop Dogg holding what appears to be a marijuana joint, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 16, 2018
- 1 min
Should teachers ban spiral notebooks?
Should schools ban spiral notebooks? After all, writes Thomas Arnett of the Christensen Institute, students often use them “to scribble...
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