Self-control is a very important skill to develop which is sometimes pretty difficult to learn. According to Laura Markham Ph.D. of Psychology Today1, “Only 30% of 4 year olds can manage their emotions, anxiety and impulses to resist temptation.” Why should that matter? I’m actually surprised that the number is as high as 30%!
There are two pretty basic problems with this line of thinking. First, the idea that you cannot create on a smartphone or tablet assumes both that the software on the new device doesn’t change and that the nature of the work won’t change. Neither are good assumptions. You begin by making the new tool fit the…
There’s a lot of talk about digital media. Increasing screen time has created worries about media’s impacts on democracy, addiction, depression, relationships, learning, health, privacy and much more. The effects are frequently assumed to be huge, even apocalyptic. Scientific data, however, often fail to confirm what seems true based on everyday experiences. In study after study, screen time is often not correlated with important effects at a…
Source: inkle blog – inklewriter lives again! I posted about Inklewriter way back in 2016. It is a tool much like Twine for creating interactive stories. Inklewriter is now back, and free to use on the web. There are several new features, but the biggest is that Iinklewriter is now open source. That means your…
With school out and summer break giving kids more time to spend on the Internet, it’s a great time to introduce Be Internet Awesome: a new way to encourage digital safety and citizenship. Developed in collaboration with online safety experts like the Family Online Safety Institute, the Internet Keep Safe Coalition and ConnectSafely, Be Internet…
…Both Reader Rabbitand Cluefinders were the work of The Learning Company (TLC), a dominant player in the realm of educational software during its peak in the late 1980s and ’90s. At a certain point, TLC owned pretty much every computer game that mattered to millennials: The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, even Oregon Trail….
