Getting through to your kids in the digital age
How smartphones, family dinners, and admitting you don’t know everything can help you connect. THE YOUNG BOY with spiky blond hair lies in bed wearing football pajamas and staring at the miniature solar system hanging from his ceiling. His bearded father lies beside him, fielding a few questions before turning out the lights. “How far away […]
Turn Off, Tune Out: The National Day of Unplugging Is Upon Us
Twenty-four hours without your smartphone or tablet? Cue Bernard Herrmann’s shrieking Psycho violins for the next 1,440 minutes. Think you could do it? The folks behind the National Day of Unplugging are hoping that, to paraphrase Tim Leary, you can “turn off, tune out and drop by (and see someone).” The party kicks off tonight at sunset, March 1, and rolls […]
TED Prize Winner Sugata Mitra To Create A “School In The Cloud”
The educational innovator receives $1 million to seed child-driven, Internet-enabled learning centers in India and around the world. Today Dr. Sugata Mitra became the eighth winner of the TED Prize, which now consists of $1 million presented to social entrepreneurs to make their dreams huge. Past winners include Bono’s ONE campaign, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and artist JR. […]
How social media can help wreck a home
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Recent surveys estimate Facebook is now playing a role in at least a fifth of U.S divorces and may be a factor in up to a third of divorces . With that in mind, and in the hopes that their story will serve as a lesson for others, one couple in northeast Indiana decided […]
Why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants school kids to learn coding
NEW YORK: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey are among the tech luminaries appearing in a new video promoting the teaching and learning of computer coding in schools. Titled “What most schools don’t teach,” the video released online begins with Zuckerberg, Gates and other tech icons recalling the time they got their start […]