Calls for banning smartphones in schools are being heard right around the world, following the recent lead of France and Albania. But what's the case for the other side?
"You can't stop students using the powerful computers in their pockets," notes the director of IT at England’s prestigious Queen Elizabeth School.
As an educator, you don’t need x-ray vision to figure out that you and your students aren’t always on the same page.
Primary school kids as young as five are self-harming, acting out and suffering from mood disorders at unheard-of rates - and social media and smartphones are being identified as a major contributing factor.
Is technology in the classroom mostly a benefit to learning, or mostly a barrier? Educators have been debating the question for at least a decade. Yet the voices of the ultimate “end-users” - aka students - need to be included in the ...
Research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics found that excessive TV viewing and gaming were the two screen-time activities most closely associated with lower grades for both primary and secondary ...
A new video chat app invites kids to send 15-second videos to strangers. What could possibly go wrong?
SCREENS IN SCHOOLS: ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
The Internet is a part of our everyday lives, not just for mum and dad, but increasingly for children of all ages, too.