Category: digitaldiscipline
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Podcast447: Reflections on Screenagers Movie – Growing up in the digital age
This 20 minute podcast features reflections by Sarah Fryer, Rachel Fryer, and Wesley Fryer after watching a screening of the film, “Screenagers: Growing up in the digital age.” http://www.screenagersmovie.com This 70 minute movie was shown on September 21, 2016, to an audience of parents, students, and educators at Christ the King School in Oklahoma City. The…
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How Much Minecraft is Too Much Minecraft?
Do you have kids at home who love to play Minecraft? Our (now) 12 year daughter definitely fits into that category. This past summer we paid for her to participate in Connected Camps’ “Summer of Minecraft,” and Rachel really enjoyed it. Last night we recorded a 20 minute podcast, in which she reflected on her camp…
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Too Overwhelmed & Guilty to Blog Much
Yikes. I’m absolutely loving my new job as a school technology director this year, but I’ve been so overwhelmed and behind on multiple outside commitments (as well as work emails) that I haven’t been blogging much. This year I’ve stepped down from two significant volunteer positions as an elder for our church (a 3 year…
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Indeed You Are Powerful – Digital Screen
Has anyone else noticed how powerful the allure of digital screens is? I’ll hazard a guess the answer is a resounding “yes.” We can’t go anywhere these days without seeing people glued to their smartphones. Why is this the case? There are many reasons, but I assert a primary one is that digital screens offer…
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Free Play and Our Overscheduled Lives
Consider these words from Peter Gray, author of “Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life:” Free play is nature’s means of teaching children that they are not helpless. In play, away from adults, children really do have control and can practice…
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Is the Pied Piper (electronic devices with screens) taking our kids away? by Neeti Kohli
These are my notes from Dr. Neeti Kohli‘s presentation, “Is the Pied Piper (Electronic devices with screens) taking our kids away?” on October 1, 2013, at the Oklahoma Technology Association / EncycloMedia conference in Oklahoma City. Dr. Kohli is a medical doctor (anathesiologist) but is presenting today primarily as a parent (who happens to also…
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Left to Their Own Devices
Have you noticed a pattern of change with electrical plug usage in your kitchen and bedrooms at your house in the past few years? The number of Internet-connected devices in the world is exploding, and this is visible in many households today via an increase in power chargers plugged into available outlets. In the past…
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A Story about Web Accountability and Club Penguin
Today I learned that over a year ago, one of our children was “banned” from the Club Penguin website for 24 hours for using profanity. I learned about this when I was checking out the “Ban History” on my Club Penguin “Parent Tools” page. Obviously that isn’t a “web history” page I visit very often.…
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Don’t Blame School Officials if Your Child Chooses to Look at Porn on His Laptop
Last month, Ponca City Schools in Oklahoma faced a news headline any 1:1 laptop school could potentially confront in the local media: “Ponca City student accesses porn on school laptop.” According to the article: A Ponca City mother is outraged. She says her son has been accessing pornography….on a laptop that was issued by the…