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, 20181 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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 20, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
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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