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Smartphones won’t make your kids dumb. We think.

Smartphones won’t make your kids dumb. We think. | mlearn | Scoop.it

When radio arrived, it too was deemed a menace, blamed for distracting children from their homework. A 1936 article in Gramophone magazine reported that youngsters had “developed the habit of dividing attention between the humdrum preparation of their school assignments and the compelling excitement of the loudspeaker”.


Via Nik Peachey, Ricard Garcia
Nik Peachey's curator insight, June 24, 2016 4:08 AM

Nothing much changes.

Ricard Garcia's curator insight, June 29, 2016 6:25 AM
Good reflection. Wirth reading. Misusage shouldn't yield into banning a methodology.
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Taking the Learners and Technology Outdoors

Taking the Learners and Technology Outdoors | mlearn | Scoop.it
I began my career as an educator as an outdoor educator.  Now I teach educational technology.  Given both the ever increasing sedentary and indoor lives of kids and the advancement of technology, t...

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Ricard Garcia's curator insight, April 19, 2013 4:10 AM

Very interesting and illuminating text... one step out? Or one step up?

Gary Harwell's curator insight, April 21, 2013 2:38 AM

Maybe we SHOULD get out of the clasrooms.