by Carol A. Josel | Feb 19, 2018 | Articles
According to Common Sense Media research, teens now spend an average of nine hours a day glued to their devices, with tweens not all that far behind at six. And that doesn’t account for tech’s use in our nation’s classrooms, nor all the...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 26, 2018 | Commentary
As reported by Fiza Pirani of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Finista, the latest social media platform gaining teen attention, is a combo of the words fake and Instagram. As she explains, “It is essentially a fake second Instagram account cultivated for a...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 16, 2017 | Articles, Commentary
In this era of selfies and emojis, it’s no surprise that, in a recent article, veteran elementary/middle school teacher Chrissy Romano-Arrabito says that picting–using images in place of text to convey thoughts and ideas–“is becoming the norm...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 14, 2017 | Making Education News
With thanks to USA Today’s N’dea Yancey-Bragg: As if news about kids’ online activities couldn’t get any worse, it just has… Indeed, according to the Cyberbullying Research Center, about 6% of our kids, 6 through 17, have actually bullied...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 6, 2017 | Making Education News
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 37% of black, first-time college students who enrolled in 2011-12 were no longer in school after three years. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 30% of Hispanic, first-time college...
