3 Fears About Screen Time for Kids and Why They’re Not True This is a great TED talk about some worries that some people have about screen time. Sara DeWitt doesn’t say that all screen time is the same. We need to look for balance and how we can engage with the students around the…
Month: October 2017
What does it mean to lead from the middle?
Podcast UWCLearn is back! This episode focuses on middle leadership. Find out why you may want to have your department create their very own ‘user manuals,’ or why a visual reminder of subject-specific norms might be useful for your students: If you would like to be partnered up with a member of the college to…
Digital Bytes – 9th October, 2017
Amplify Last May, Kristin Ziemke’s visit to our school inspired many of us to try using different digital tools to support our students. With the upcoming half term break, you might want to check out Kristin’s book Amplify available in our library or as an ebook. Kristin does an amazing job sharing ideas that…
Filter Bubbles and the UWCSEA Learner
Think digital and media literacy don’t need to be a priority? Either we can use social media to reinforce filter bubbles, or to break them: here are a few tools to help you do the latter: POLITECHO check out the Google Chrome Extension here. The app assigns each of your friends a score based on…
Digital Bytes – 2 October, 2017
InternetMatters.org Internet Matters is a good resource for parents who would like some support with talking to their children about issues around internet safety. There is an app which is designed for the parent and child to use together and a downloadable PDF. The key thing is for parents to open up lines of…