Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.

How does technology influence your day-to-day interactions? This article, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.,” explores the negative impact your phone has on your personal relationships and your ability to converse with others. Discover if you fall victim to what psychologists Howard Gardner and Katie Davis deem the “app generation” and how putting away your phone can help you form deeper and more meaningful connections.

Click here to read this article by Sherry Turkle.

Are Requirements for Teaching Too Strict?

In a recent article from the BloombergView, Francis Barry argues that states should have a regulated list of requirements for incoming teachers. At this time, many states have different certification requirements, making it difficult for teachers to move from state to state. Barry believes that states and schools should be more focused on ability and less focused on certification and academic credits.

“As states move toward a set of common standards for students through Common Core, they ought to do the same for teachers, allowing them to move from state to state without difficulty. At the same time, principals ought to have the flexibility to hire teachers based on their ability and experience, not their academic credits.”

What’s your opinion?

You can follow the link below to read more: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-12/how-many-degrees-do-you-need-to-teach-middle-school-

 

Are Smartphones the Problem?

In a recent article in CNN Money, Ivana Kottasova discusses a study done by The London School of Economics, which found that when schools ban phones, their students improve immensely. The researchers, Richard Murphy and Philippe Beland, found that after phones were banned, school test scores improved by 6.4% and by 14% for underachieving students. These results show that low achieving students are more easily distracted by technology.

This past March, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio got rid of a city wide ban on cell phones in schools, and decided to let schools make their own policies on the topic. Was this the right decision? Here’s what Murphy and Beland think:

“Schools could significantly reduce the education achievement gap by prohibiting mobile phone use in schools, and so by allowing phones in schools, New York may unintentionally increase the inequalities of outcomes.”

To learn more, follow the link to the article below: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/18/technology/smartphones-schools-ban/index.html

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