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elle @techni_gal

innovation instigator; toddler negotiator; brain surgery survivor; maker; tech coach-let’s talk sustainability and accessibility; #buildabetterbook alum New Hampshire, USA Joined July 2011
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Matt Couch @RealMattCouch

2 days ago

Imagine trying to take out the only reason you make any money…

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IE Lifestyle @lifestyle_ie

4 days ago

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has revealed how screen time works in his home, where children earn weekend access instead of having fixed daily limits. indianexpress.com/article/lifest…

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NBC 7 San Diego @nbcsandiego

4 days ago

San Diego Unified leaders approve a proposal to limit screen time for students starting in August. Here’s how it would work. 📱on.nbc7.com/jMiwbNJ

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edutopia @edutopia

3 years ago

Help students "rewire" how they respond to boredom and discomfort. ELA teacher @Mr_Rablin offers ways to encourage students to effectively regulate screentime. edutopia.org/article/health…

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Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta

2 months ago

The evidence is in. Social media is harming kids' mental health. JAMA just completed the largest longitudinal meta-analysis ever assembled. 363,000 kids across 153 studies. Up to 22 years of follow-up. The finding? Social media is bad for kids' mental health. Video gaming is not. Samantha Teague's team at James Cook University screened nearly 19,000 papers to get to the 153 that met the bar for longitudinal evidence. They tracked 26 developmental outcomes across ages 2 to 19. Video gaming was associated with higher aggression but better attention and executive function. Social media was associated with behavioral problems, self-injury, lower self-perception, lower academic achievement, and higher substance use. Across every domain measured. The strongest relationship in the meta-analysis: social media use predicted media addiction later. Bigger than the link to depression. Bigger than every other outcome they tracked. The platform's primary product is the addiction. Everything else cascades from there. Pediatricians like Jason Nagata at UCSF now see the same diagnostic profile used to identify substance use disorder showing up in young adolescents. Cravings. Withdrawal. Look at the temporal cut. Effects got more intense in studies conducted after 2012, when smartphones became ubiquitous and platforms shifted to algorithmic feeds and infinite scroll. Same kids. Same screens. The product mechanic changed and the damage scaled. Per-study effect sizes are small. Kate Blocker at Children and Screens does the population math: shifting the mental health score of 50 million teens by 3% means hundreds of thousands of additional kids crossing the threshold into clinical depression or anxiety. In March, juries found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive platforms that cause mental health harms. The product liability framing now has peer-reviewed quantitative backing. Video games end. Feeds don't.

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Fixing Education @FixingEducation

2 months ago

Lower Merion parents are asking the district to opt their kids out of school-issued Chromebooks. Parents cite low-quality programs and concerns about cognitive development. Have Chromebooks improved student learning…or made it worse? Are they a distraction to most students?

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rob. @robiartec

2 months ago

🚨Google acaba de matar las apps de escaneo de documentos de terceros. El nuevo escáner nativo de Drive hace capturas multipágina en tiempo real, detecta duplicados automáticamente y tiene modo continuo.

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Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano

2 months ago

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

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elle @techni_gal

5 months ago

@clever your latest update really screwed up our classroom iPads that are shared amongst 5 and 6 year olds… logging out is not easy. Revert, revert!

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edutopia @edutopia

2 years ago

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Lynda Mullaly Hunt 🗣⛈💦//🐟🌳 @LynMullalyHunt

a year ago

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! FISH IN A TREE is my thank you/love note to those teachers out there saving kids each day. I will choose a winner each day for a week. Please share to enter. And, again, thanks so much for all you do. ❤️

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National Center on Sexual Exploitation @NCOSE

a year ago

The App Store Accountability Act has passed the Texas Senate!! Thank you @AngelaPaxtonTX for your leadership protecting kids online TX SB 2420 is a GAME CHANGER: Make Google and Apple Accountable, finally.

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Melissa McKay @Melissa_M818

a year ago

🔥MUST READ new @WSJ op-ed by @GovCox and @BradWilcoxIFS. "The App Store Accountability Act is a common-sense fix to a serious problem." A huge win for child safety! @joellthayer @gopTODD @AWinderNewton @DigiChildAllnce @ClareMorellEPPC @FamStudies @protecteyes @NCOSE

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Digital Childhood Alliance @DigiChildAllnce

a year ago

Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store by @SpencerJCox and @BradWilcoxIFS wsj.com/opinion/utah-h… via @WSJopinion @Melissa_M818

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elle @techni_gal

a year ago

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Melanie Brethour @melbrethour

a year ago

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Microsoft Surface @surface

a year ago

Our key to success is saving tricks for when we need them 😉

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elle @techni_gal

a year ago

@LukasKob @surface great share!

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elle @techni_gal

a year ago

@Copilot Awesome!

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elle @techni_gal

2 years ago

@BriennePeers @canva Do you use Google Sites? I am trying to find the best place to house resources for my staff, too! My Google Site just seems "out of date"

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Principal Project @PrincipalProj

2 years ago

There's nothing as rewarding as seeing two young students solve a conflict independently. Set your school community up for these powerful moments by sharing @TCEA's "wheel of choices" with your staff. blog.tcea.org/wheel-of-choic…

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