Joanne Jacobs
Connected, dependent — and distracted
Fortnite Mobile, a trendy free game, is distracting students and overloading schools’ wifi, reports Patricia Hernandez on Kotaku....
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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...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 21, 2017
- 1 min
French schools say ‘non’ to cell phones
French schools will ban cell phones reports Henry Samuel in The Telegraph. In addition to a classroom ban, students will not be allowed...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 11, 2017
- 1 min
Long lessons, lots of distracted kids
The average K-4 student is distracted more than a quarter of the time, according to a 2016 paper, Off-task behavior in elementary school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 21, 2017
- 2 min
Don’t take your laptop to class
Bringing a laptop to class is a mistake, writes Cindi May in Scientific American, citing Michigan State research. Although computer use...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
Laptops in lecture class: Grades go down
Using a laptop to take notes in a college lecture classes is linked to lower grades — especially for weaker students — in two new...
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