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This document discusses sustaining excitement after maker workshops and how kids can learn, draw, write, collaborate, build and make through a maker mindset. It takes inspiration from Japanese pseudo-science and engineering as well as an open source and community building approach. The presentation considers how kids can learn through making and what happens after initial workshops to maintain enthusiasm. It closes by thanking the audience and providing contact details.
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/TechTips
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My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/parents
This document discusses sustaining excitement after maker workshops and how kids can learn, draw, write, collaborate, build and make through a maker mindset. It takes inspiration from Japanese pseudo-science and engineering as well as an open source and community building approach. The presentation considers how kids can learn through making and what happens after initial workshops to maintain enthusiasm. It closes by thanking the audience and providing contact details.
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/TechTips
Digital Literacy and Professional Development #heieBernard Goldbach
This document discusses digital literacy and professional development from a multimedia perspective for teaching and learning forums in Ireland. It provides tips on managing information and events using tools like Evernote, and outlines various conferences and chats for connecting and collaborating online. It emphasizes lifelong learning and sharing, and how new literacies around research, publishing, and rich media production need to be incorporated more fully into classrooms and learning workflows. The document advocates embracing mainstream technologies now available and connecting and collaborating through professional learning networks to help bridge digital divides.
iZ HERO Parents Training @ Anglo-Chinese School PrimaryiZHERO
The document outlines an iZ HERO Parents' Training Workshop which aims to educate parents about the iZ HERO cyber wellness initiative for children aged 6-13. The workshop covers an overview of iZ HERO and its online platform iZHERO.net, a live demonstration of teaching sessions, and a Q&A on the training materials. iZ HERO empowers kids with digital leadership skills to use technology safely and spread kindness online through interactive games and activities on iZHERO.net.
This document discusses technology and provides tips to increase one's "tech IQ." It begins by defining key technology terms like "digital natives" and "digital immigrants." It then asks the reader to assess their comfort level with technology on a 1 to 10 scale. The document lists popular tech tools like social media, YouTube, and various Google services. It encourages the reader to explore new technologies and learn from students. Finally, it offers 10 tips to increase one's tech IQ, such as taking one's tech support person to lunch, and provides 3 basic technology principles.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/parents
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- Various web tools like Padlet, Voicethread and PearlTree allow for exploration, creativity, collaboration and experimentation through activities like visual writing prompts, image caption contests and live events.
- The focus is on keeping learning active through play with digital tools and encouraging peer learning and leadership through groups and peer editing.
This document discusses how social media and online tools can be used to easily create, share, and discuss user-generated content to engage audiences, entertain them, and inform them about campaigns. It provides examples of tools like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and websites that non-profits can use to research audiences, present information, and spread their messages to large numbers of people in Hong Kong. The document encourages thinking about how to get people's attention online and then explores some of these tools in more detail.
Rethinking mlearning and the Promise of Flying Cars ConfabEdu 2014Andrew Smyk
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This document discusses various features and affordances of the iPad including screen rotation, zooming, searching, measuring, sliding to unlock, and providing feedback to users. It notes that the iPad allows knowledge to move from being "in the world" to being "in the head". However, it also mentions that multitasking on the iPad can be distracting. References for further information are also provided.
This document discusses e-learning 2.0 and the pedagogical use of web 2.0 tools in education projects. It introduces e-learning 2.0 and how web 2.0 tools can be used pedagogically, provides examples of education projects using these tools, and considers whether the benefits of using these tools are real or an illusion. The conclusion wraps up the discussion.
ICT Seminar: Parenting In the Digital Age: Inspiring Parents to Protect
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its free!!!
The document discusses how technology has changed and will continue changing society by 2025. It describes how technologies like Google Glasses, PS4 cameras, navigation systems, and laptops have evolved and will integrate even more into daily life over the next decade. By 2025, Google Glasses are predicted to be a top seller and advance how people access the internet. PS4 cameras and navigation systems will also improve and change how people interact and travel. Additionally, the document predicts that by 2025, students will rely entirely on laptops and eBooks for school, eliminating paper use and allowing virtual classrooms.
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Click Clever, Click Save: UK Child Internet Safety Strategy
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Australian lesson plans for secondary classes
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Think.com is an online community and suite of tools that facilitates project-based learning, technology use, and the development of 21st century skills for students. It provides a protected online environment for collaboration between students, teachers, and experts from around the world. Think.com is free to use, funded by the Oracle Education Foundation, and supports multiple languages. It allows for asynchronous collaboration on shared projects between students in different locations.
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The ppt presentation by Cathy Oxley to the Ipswich Library & Information Service in October 2008 on web 2.0 tools suitable for teachers to engage the 12-17 years cohort.
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The Media Department at Coventry University has developed a framework of highly innovative teaching, learning and creative-practice spaces – virtual and physical.
This paper will present the challenges we have faced, and the success we have encountered from the creation of a series of ‘alternative spaces’ for learning, which address the changing landscape of 21st Century education .
Students and staff have engaged with the spaces in different ways through a range of, discipline-led initiatives.
These initiatives have led to open educational classes, interactive blog spaces, online presentations of student work and international collaborations across courses within the media department.
We have recently developed a project that will enable students to engage more actively in the process so that they can create and develop student-led teaching and learning environments. This project will consider the spaces in which students are comfortable and prefer to learn as well as creating opportunities to challenge and question their learning styles.
The impact of the project extends beyond the teaching and learning environment and seeks to empower the students: by placing them at the heart of the process we hope that they will take more responsibility for their own learning, become more entrepreneurial in their approach to their own education and develop lifelong skills that extend far beyond the classroom.
With geographical barriers removed, educators have an opportunity to enlighten and empower students, through innovative, open and shared teaching and learning practices, to find their voice and positively contribute to a culturally rich and globally connected world.
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This document summarizes key points from an I4Ed presentation on building a personal learning network (PLN) and using technology in the classroom. It stresses the importance of contributing to and learning from others in a PLN by sharing knowledge through blogging or Twitter. Google Docs is highlighted as a useful collaborative tool. Additional topics covered include educating students on internet safety, the benefits of podcasts and infographics, and adapting teaching methods to incorporate students' personal devices in the classroom while also addressing issues like cyberbullying.
- Students shape their own learning by collaboratively creating and curating content and resources with instructor guidance and foundation building.
- Various web tools like Padlet, Voicethread and PearlTree allow for exploration, creativity, collaboration and experimentation through activities like visual writing prompts, image caption contests and live events.
- The focus is on keeping learning active through play with digital tools and encouraging peer learning and leadership through groups and peer editing.
This document discusses how social media and online tools can be used to easily create, share, and discuss user-generated content to engage audiences, entertain them, and inform them about campaigns. It provides examples of tools like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and websites that non-profits can use to research audiences, present information, and spread their messages to large numbers of people in Hong Kong. The document encourages thinking about how to get people's attention online and then explores some of these tools in more detail.
Rethinking mlearning and the Promise of Flying Cars ConfabEdu 2014Andrew Smyk
Mobile technology’s innovation and growth have outpaced and outgrown our current teaching ideals and delivery methodologies at all levels of education. We are entering into a perfect storm for m-learning. Instead of top-down transmitting models, we could engage learners with collaborative models that are already in place via text messaging and crowdsourcing available via social networks. We could encourage anywhere, anytime learning through instant access to information and more satisfying inquiry for teachers and learners.
A quick history of my experience of eLearning and a look at current industry trends. Presentation for CUNA (Credit Union National Association) on October 27, 2015.
This document discusses various features and affordances of the iPad including screen rotation, zooming, searching, measuring, sliding to unlock, and providing feedback to users. It notes that the iPad allows knowledge to move from being "in the world" to being "in the head". However, it also mentions that multitasking on the iPad can be distracting. References for further information are also provided.
This document discusses e-learning 2.0 and the pedagogical use of web 2.0 tools in education projects. It introduces e-learning 2.0 and how web 2.0 tools can be used pedagogically, provides examples of education projects using these tools, and considers whether the benefits of using these tools are real or an illusion. The conclusion wraps up the discussion.
ICT Seminar: Parenting In the Digital Age: Inspiring Parents to Protect
Digital Parenting workshops is an hour of informational seminars where parents learn the latest in online safety (30-45 minute presentation) followed by interactive discussion on issues relevant to each parent. Team from Ramsys Infotech Solutions will moderate each workshop with the goal that, parents will walk out of the seminar feeling more confident, less anxious and ready to communicate with their children about some of the icky things online.
its free!!!
The document discusses how technology has changed and will continue changing society by 2025. It describes how technologies like Google Glasses, PS4 cameras, navigation systems, and laptops have evolved and will integrate even more into daily life over the next decade. By 2025, Google Glasses are predicted to be a top seller and advance how people access the internet. PS4 cameras and navigation systems will also improve and change how people interact and travel. Additionally, the document predicts that by 2025, students will rely entirely on laptops and eBooks for school, eliminating paper use and allowing virtual classrooms.
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Click Clever, Click Save: UK Child Internet Safety Strategy
E-safety support lesson plans
Australian lesson plans for secondary classes
Childnet International Resources
e-Safety Brochure
Think.com is an online community and suite of tools that facilitates project-based learning, technology use, and the development of 21st century skills for students. It provides a protected online environment for collaboration between students, teachers, and experts from around the world. Think.com is free to use, funded by the Oracle Education Foundation, and supports multiple languages. It allows for asynchronous collaboration on shared projects between students in different locations.
The Accidental Instructional Designer #ASTD2014Cammy Bean
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The document discusses how technology has become integrated into daily life and is difficult to avoid. While technology development offers benefits, it also raises concerns about jobs being replaced by AI and insufficient research on health impacts. However, technology can be used positively or negatively depending on how it is applied. Examples are provided of how technology like fitness machines can inspire exercise and new jobs are created through technological advancements. The conclusion acknowledges society's growing reliance on technology while progress continues rapidly.
The ppt presentation by Cathy Oxley to the Ipswich Library & Information Service in October 2008 on web 2.0 tools suitable for teachers to engage the 12-17 years cohort.
This document discusses the importance of hands-on technology in education. It contains quotes from experts emphasizing that technology is essential for teaching today's skills. The document argues that technology opens new doors for 21st century learners by enabling worldwide communication, stimulating research, allowing instant communication, and creating sensory memories from anywhere. Hands-on technology is vital for today's students.
The Expanded Classroom: The impact of technology in a connected worldJonathan Shaw
The Media Department at Coventry University has developed a framework of highly innovative teaching, learning and creative-practice spaces – virtual and physical.
This paper will present the challenges we have faced, and the success we have encountered from the creation of a series of ‘alternative spaces’ for learning, which address the changing landscape of 21st Century education .
Students and staff have engaged with the spaces in different ways through a range of, discipline-led initiatives.
These initiatives have led to open educational classes, interactive blog spaces, online presentations of student work and international collaborations across courses within the media department.
We have recently developed a project that will enable students to engage more actively in the process so that they can create and develop student-led teaching and learning environments. This project will consider the spaces in which students are comfortable and prefer to learn as well as creating opportunities to challenge and question their learning styles.
The impact of the project extends beyond the teaching and learning environment and seeks to empower the students: by placing them at the heart of the process we hope that they will take more responsibility for their own learning, become more entrepreneurial in their approach to their own education and develop lifelong skills that extend far beyond the classroom.
With geographical barriers removed, educators have an opportunity to enlighten and empower students, through innovative, open and shared teaching and learning practices, to find their voice and positively contribute to a culturally rich and globally connected world.
Today’s teaching and learning should stimulate debate and encourage discovery; this paper places the student’s ownership, engagement and collaborative learning at the heart of that journey. Students, working as researchers and co-creators will develop collaborative, connected and technology-enabled models for higher education.
The document discusses the future of learning and key concepts around informal, mobile, and social learning. It outlines that informal learning occurs outside of educational establishments and does not follow a set curriculum. Mobile learning takes advantage of opportunities from portable technologies like phones and tablets. Social software like wikis and blogs can support informal interaction and help when formal processes fail. The document also contrasts the traditional role of the teacher as guide versus a more modern role of being a leader and facilitator who helps generate ideas rather than being the sole source of them.
This document summarizes key points from an I4Ed presentation on building a personal learning network (PLN) and using technology in the classroom. It stresses the importance of contributing to and learning from others in a PLN by sharing knowledge through blogging or Twitter. Google Docs is highlighted as a useful collaborative tool. Additional topics covered include educating students on internet safety, the benefits of podcasts and infographics, and adapting teaching methods to incorporate students' personal devices in the classroom while also addressing issues like cyberbullying.
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This training developed for The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland. It will:
Whet your appetite for using technology and media in your literacy program.
Ask you to select at least one awesome tech learning object.
Provide time and a template to create a integration plan to use your chosen tech learning object right away.
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1. PREPARING STUDENTS FOR
THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY
DQ: WHAT THE HECK DO I DO ABOUT SCREEN TIME?
Dion Lim
Piedmont Parent Education Series
September 30, 2014
4. 10. How am I leveraging technology?
δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ
καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω
“Give me a place to stand
and I will move the earth.”
~ Archimedes
Technology is a force multiplier.
5. 9. What’s my use of technology?
Creational
Create
Cultivate Skills
Functional
Connect
Communicate
Carry out Research
Recreational
Consume
De-Compress
Not all screen time is created equal.
6. 8. Is my technology building or
hurting relationships?
Your network is your safety net and your ladder.
7. 7. Am I fostering a culture of
creational technology?
Environment
Big Ideas/Lexicon
Current/Past Leaders
Community/Events
Life Integrated/Identity
Culture is more powerful than interventions.
8. 6. Are we collaborating on our use
of and approach to technology?
Your character’s who you are when no one’s looking.
9. 5. Am I cultivating self awareness
about the use of technology?
Accept the natural. Work towards the desirable.
10. 4. When is privacy appropriate?
Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
11. 3. Is my use of technology a privilege,
entitlement or responsibility?
All privileges come with responsibilities.
12. 2. Am I modeling a growth mindset
towards technology?
You can do it!
13. 1. Am I modeling technology usage?
Be the person you want your children to be.
I am Dion Lim, I am CEO NextLesson, we are an online curriculum developer. Today’s topic, of course is Preparing Students for the Age of Technology or maybe more to the point for many audience members … What the F*** do I do about screen time?
Despite having three children, I am not particularly well qualified to talk about parenting, at least according to my mother. I counter that in addition to my 12 years of experience being a parent I have 46 years of experience being treated like a child. Hee hee the more I tell that joke, the lower my therapy bills are.
So instead of talking to you like the unqualified expert I thot I would share some of the questions I have pondered and some stories as a Fellow sojourner
Number 10. Here’s a picture of Archimedes demonstrating the power of leverage. Doy me PAH stoh, kai than gahn kiNAso. Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth
I found a desire early in my life to try to make the world a better place for as many people as possible. I surmised that my biggest points of leverage were influencing people and applying technology. Later on I also grew to appreciate setting policy.
If you want to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people everyday, you could strive to be President of the United States, or you could builds a technology company.
I think the latter is more doable, more fun, faster to impact/scale and something you can do with your friends.
The companies that I have helped cultivate; Sina.com, Epinions, SimplyHired, NextLesson are used by 500M people a month. Ali’s portfolio of investments would be probably be larger and over a billion people have seen Kurt’s movies. My current startup NextLesson started just last year reaches 50,000 teachers and 2M students, Alameda just licensed for 10,000 teachers and 225,000 students.
Technology is a force multiplier
Dohss moy pah stoh, kai (rhymes with "pie") tahn gahn kee-nah-soh
Number 9. What’s my use of technology?
+ Here’s a framework I came up with that you may find helpful.
+ At the highest level there is creational usage: I’ve listed a few websites that help you create or cultivate the skills to create things. Let me point out a few you may not have heard of: Inkscape is a free professional quality vector graphics software as powerful as Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator my kids use it for their graphic and laser cutting design work. Google Draw is another great, easier to use one. TinkerCad is free 3D modeling software you can learn to use in one day.
+ The next level is functional: what’s important to note here is that there is some really straightforward utility in this large bucket.
+ The bottom level is recreational: what’s important to note here is how a lot of technology can span categories depending on how it’s used – except for my favorite one which I noticed is missing here, ESPN.
+ I encourage you to spend some time with your children categorizing your family’s usage and deciding on the general principles and ratios by which everyone self-governs.
My final two data points for you here are
+ There was a recent article you may have seen that highlighted that Steve Jobs minimized the exposure of his kids to technology.
+ Terry Smith, a 5th grade science teacher at Havens worked for one of UC Berkeley’s top neuroscientists, Larry Lowery. His research indicated that when children did 3 dimensional play they established an order of magnitude more synaptic connections than 2D.
+ Personally I have ascribed to both these philosophies. Doesn’t mean you have to, of course.
The bottom line is that I have found it helpful to see screen time in more nuanced ways – Not all screen time is created equal.
Number 8. Is my technology building or hurting relationships? Is it bringing enjoyment or suffering to those around me?
+ On the last slide one of the uses of technology I mentioned was connection. I want to take a moment to highlight its importance.
+ I encourage great use of technology for connection. You want your child to be very adept at building their network.
+ Referral hiring is only going to increase over time. Ernst and Young has seen an increase from 28% to 45% of their non-entry level hires through referrals from in the last few years. Any adult who has looked for a job recently can attest to this.
+ Exhibitionism is not relationship building
+ In the Web 1.0 days I started a young entrepreneurs group call Round Zero that included twenty something nobodies who would become the founders of Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, EventBrite, WorkDay, just to name a few.
Your network is your safety net and your ladder.
HR executives rated referrals the #1 source of quality candidates, ranking an 8.6 out of 10.
Number 7. Am I fostering a culture of creational Technology?
I met Matt Bardine, a founding teacher for TFA and the most expensive SAT tutor in the world at $800/hour. On the topic of improving reading, he moved my thinking around the fact that the intervention of reading to your child everyday is much less powerful than building a culture of reading. Compare having your parent read to you for 15 minutes every day before you go to sleep to an environment filled with books where you discuss the big ideas from the latest books you’ve read fluently using terminology like denouement, story arc, thesis. Where you have regular family reading times, your parents host a book club and people recommend books to one another. Culture is more powerful than interventions.
Few specific tips for you: get involved with Piedmont Makers, regularly attend Maker Faires, join Hacker Scouts, subscribe to wired magazine or MIT technology review, send your kid to a Galileo camp. Nod to Glenn Tripp. You live in Maker Central. I want you to realize you are the equivalent of living in Hollywood and saying I wish I could find a way to get my kid involved in the entertainment business
Number 6. Are we collaborating on our use of and approach to technology.
I know many authoritarian household who are very proud of the strict control of technology in their household. There are a couple of challenges I see with this approach. One is that teenagers for all of humanity have shown the will and need as well as the resourcefulness to evade their parent’s authority. I can tell you stories of kids buying second phones to put outside their rooms, logging on to neighborhood wifi’s, borrowing their friend’s phone. The second and more important factor is that when we send our children into the world on their own, I think we set them up for a lot more enjoyment of life if they have fully developed self-regulation. The boy who covertly plays video games becomes the man who looks at inappropriate content at work. These are often the notorious strict-upbringing kids who go nuts their first year of college.
Your character is who you are when no one is looking. We don’t have any specific rules in our house for technology. I encourage families to generate principles or guidelines and if the kids feel like they need a rule, then have them come up with it. The cliché, people support what they help build. For what it’s worth, we have no rules in our house due primarily to the fact that we have created a creational technology culture.
Vices grow over time, not decline. Develop self-regulation. Principles instead of rules
Kids can evade, will be on there own soon enough,
Rules in our house - none, but recently developed one with Atticus to help him
Your character is who you are when nobody is looking
Help your child develop their own strategies for self-control
mindfullness, 10-min rule
ways they evade - when they are ceo of a top firewall firm, you can tell them you made them who they are, same can be said if they become a criminal hacker
Your children will find a way around your blocks
Authoritarian parents vs. authoritative parenting
logging in to a neighbor’s wifi, multiple phones,
Releasing child into the wild with self-regulation character strength and strategies how to make decisions that foster enjoyment vs. suffering
finding right fit
governing principles vs. rules
input
Number 5. Am I culitivating self awareness about the use of technology, is closely related to the previous question. The mindfulness revolution is full bore upon us. I am a huge fan because I think it empowers people with choice. Collaborating with your child on solutions will be difficult if they have minimally developed self-awareness of their feeling and motives. Are they experiencing flow or addiction. And one corollary is that I think it’s important to minimize stigma and judgment of your child’s feelings and needs. The websites that generate the most suffering such as anonymous websites whisper and ask.fm prey upon the judgment and stigma that students feel at home or in their community.
I encourage you’re a family to Accept the nature and work towards the desirable.
One anecdote I can share is that when my daughters started middle school there was an explosion of google chat activity with photos and comments that stripped us very quickly of our parental innocence. Our response was to just observe how our daughters responded and to validate their universal needs for social interaction, novelty seeking and understanding. We also helped them connect the impact of this technology on their other aspirations. What choice would be most consistent with what you aspire to be. A few weeks later, I asked them about Google Chat and they said they had turned it off because they felt it was a distraction.
Number 4. When is privacy appropriate?
Everyone can agree to respect the privacy of a child’s journal (except maybe an older sibling). And on the other end, we can agree that a child cocooned in their room doing something illegal is what we all want to avoid.
I encourage your family to discuss this topic. While we expect increasing levels of privacy as we get older
if you are hiding your screen, be mindful that it is likely you are doing something that is inconsistent with the person you aspire to be
Every family should decide the line for themselves.
But I encourage your family to agree that Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Germs die when exposed to sunlight.
Atticus agrees
Louis Brandeis early 20th Century Supreme court Justice
Number 3. Is my use of technology a privilege, entitlement or responsibility?
This question really gets at an important distinction. Fruit Ninja privilege vs. Quizlet or Google Docs – something they need for their education.
A useful guiding principle is all privileges come with responsibilities. This guidelines gives your family a mutual framework for evaluating behavior.
I tell my kids that if the responsibilities for a given privilege are too onerous, I am happy to help them simplify their lives.
Number 2: Am I modeling a growth mindset towards technology?
This question highlights the challenge I often hear which is how do I teach children to be technical when I am not not technical. I think of this as illiterate parents wanting their children to be literate.
The good news is that learning is becoming democratized more and more every day. Code.org, code academy.
Let me sum it up in just one word: You can do it!
Number 1. Am I modeling technology usage?
Try to model usage and similar ratios between creational, functional and recreational technology that you want your children to follow
Are you present when you are with your children? How much recreational technology are you doing? A good friend confessed he was fasting from games on his phone during Rosh Hashanah. Two summers ago I bejeweled by way through seven cities in China. Recently I gave up ESPN on the throne.
Bottom line: Be the person you want you children to be … at least until they go to bed.
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Sunshine is the best disinfectant
Creational Technology
Use technology to create value
Privileges always come with responsibilties
Blue light tells your body it’s day
If you feel like you want to hide your screen, you are likely doing something that is inconsistent with the person you aspire to be
You’ll have plenty of time to watch TV at the nursing home