What happens when you put 5 year olds on screens?

What happens when you put 5 year olds on screens?

 Increased screen time has multiple risks for children’s psychosocial well-being. These risk factors seem to be significant in the long term, and are related to problems in children’s socio-emotional development later on. Health professionals and pediatricians have an important role as communicators of the current research results on the safe usage time of e-media for…

Smartphone etiquette

Smartphone etiquette

This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. I recently took my mom to the doctor. My siblings have a Telegram group where we can keep each other up to date on mom’s doctor visits and appointments. The group is also…

10 years of Chromebooks

10 years of Chromebooks

Google is celebrating 10 years of Chromebooks this month. This year marks the 10th year of the life of Chromebooks, and what a journey it’s been. Although the Google CR-48 was released before 2011, it wasn’t until 2011 Acer and Samsung shipped the first models. Most people were not sold on the idea of a…

Cricut wants to start charging a subscription

Cricut wants to start charging a subscription

Cricut dropped a major change into a feature update announcement last Friday: Any Cricut device owner who does not subscribe to the Cricut Access cloud platform will be limited to no more than 20 uploads/imports per month to Design Space. (Designs made using elements Cricut sells through Design Space do not count against the limit.) The change applies not…