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Episode 27: Pre-Kindergarten Tutoring and Tech in the Classroom
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English - August 03, 2017 06:00 - 38 minutes - 55.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCourses Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 26: The Flipped Classroom and Teachers on Twitter
Next Episode: Episode 28: Local Issues for Our Town and State
Pete (@mr_van_w) has a look at the relatively new concept of tutoring companies helping 4-year-olds to "Prep-for-prep" in Queensland. While John (@jfcatto) discusses the need to teach students how to regulate their distraction by tech in the classroom.
Pete:
Prepping for Prep - should children play or study to get set for prep year - Tony Moore
John:
Digital Tools and Distraction in School - Mary Beth Hertz
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-tools-distraction-in-school-mary-beth-hertz
Net Smart: How to thrive online: Chapter 1 Attention - Howard Rheingold
http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs047n/readings/rheingold-net-smart.pdf