Tag: parenting

Plagiarize The Brain

Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #369. 3-6-9, damn, you fine Please subscribe if you want this newsletter to appear in your inbox. I’m also posting the newsletter to Substack for a bit. Reach out and say hello at hello@digitallyliterate.net. Cormac McCarthy On The True Meaning of The Road As this week began, I spent time…

Watching Robots

Hi all! Welcome back to Digitally Literate. This is issue #301. This week I published the following: How to Talk About Mental Health – Some guidance on how to talk about mental health and well-being. Getting Started With Ungrading – This semester I’m integrating more thinking about how I assess. This first post explains what…

Digitally Literate #236

When One Affects Many Digitally Lit #236 – 3/7/2020** Hi all, welcome back. I hope you’re feeling successful and staying positive this week. I posted and shared the following this week: Computational Thinking in English Language Arts – This episode of the Infusing Computing Podcast is part of an NSF-funded research program delivering computing-infused, STEM-focused…

Digitally Literate #224

The Rights of the Child Digitally Lit #224 – 11/30/2019 Hi all, welcome to issue #224 of Digitally Literate, thanks for stopping by. Please subscribe if you would like this to show up in your email inbox. This week I celebrated Thanksgiving here in the U.S. with friends and family. I love to cook, and…

How to Be a ‘Gardener’ Parent

Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of the book “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children,” in which she describes two distinct type of parents: gardeners and carpenters. The Gardener Parent vs. the…

What do parents think, and do, about their children’s online privacy?

What do parents think, and do, about their children’s online privacy? (Parenting for a Digital Future)

Today Parenting for a Digital Future releases the third in a series of reports from our nationally representative survey of UK parents of children aged 0-17. This report explores the issue of what …

Debates about personal data and online privacy, including how and by whom data is being collected about children, are scattered across the headlines. With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), including AI home assistants for kids, internet-enabled smart toys and ‘sharenting’, assumptions are often made about parents’ attitudes towards digital privacy, and the privacy-related digital skills they and…

An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson

An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson (nytimes.com)

Robinson, a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education, discusses topics including testing, bureaucracy, and parents’ power and choices.

Robinson, a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education, discusses topics including testing, bureaucracy, and parents’ power and choices. Parents have more power and more choices than they may realize in educating their children. Many parents are worried about how the world is changing and the uncertain futures their children face. Parents are especially…