Preparation and Progress Introduction K-12 schools are designed for social AND professional induction. They aim to teach concrete skills that can be used in the workforce while simultaneously fostering socio-emotional growth. The concrete skills that students need to learn, however, have become progressively more difficult to narrow down. The rise…| CoSN
A Digital Childhood Introduction Children in the United States are growing up in a media ecosystem that is drastically different than that of most adults. This generation of kids have been afforded widespread, consistent, largely unregulated access to the internet via personal devices. Much of the national conversation over children'…| CoSN
Performance Without Paper In a previous post, we identified three primary manifestations of “screen time” in K-12 spaces (those being Cell Phones/Social Media, Educational Technology, and Entertainment). Educational technology, hereafter referred to as “EdTech,” may be conflated with digital entertainment and/or cell phone use despite their differing purposes AND market…| CoSN
Widely available EdTech may be of concern to K-12 leaders because products used at home will likely not align with district-level technology initiatives and programs.| CoSN
