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We’ve heard from parents, educators and experts on ways to make technology safer for kids, and we continue to incorporate that feedback into our products. Whether it’s helping them find quality content, working to protect them from online harm or teaching them how to be good digital citizens, we’re committed to building family-friendly tools to help kids safely and confidently explore the online world.  Launching our new evidence-based Be Internet Awesome curriculum Four years ago, we launched Be Internet Awesome as a program to help educators and parents teach kids the fundamentals of digital safety and citizenship. Since then, it’s expanded to more than 30 countries in 16 languages and has helped millions of kids around the world make safer,...

Andrew Yang at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in New York City, April, 2021. New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang recently made waves when he declared that the city “shouldn’t interfere” with Orthodox Jewish schools “as long as the outcomes are good.” Yang’s position is very different from the one that some activist groups have pushed in recent years. Critics claim that many such yeshivas do not offer enough secular education to satisfy New York’s requirements and to prepare their students for the workforce. But Yang got this right. Even if some Jewish schools do not teach the same content as public schools, if, as Yang put it, their outcomes are good, the city should let them be. First, the criticisms of...

Note: It’s rare around this blog that something lingers in draft as long as this post. There is a reason for everything, right? But this one needs to get squeezed out of the Easy Blog Oven for another one to follow. The very same desire I heard in my first week (1992) as an instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges, one I came to describe as “the database of dreams” is still sought Grail-like in 2021. I saw the same questions and challenges maybe I’ve been asking myself all career. This was in the session at OERxDomains21 Melissa Jakubec presented– “If You Build It, Will They Come?”: The Challenges Of Building A Communal OER”. Her question refers to a...

Editor’s Note: Every week, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer have taken questions from parents about their kids’ education. This is the last article in the “Homeroom” series.Dear Abby and Brian,This year has been really hard emotionally, but now that a much-needed summer break is here, I’m starting to worry about academics. How do we prevent a summer slide?Thanks for everything,Zoe Brooklyn, N.Y.Dear Zoe,After a year filled with disruptions, many parents are worried about how to prevent the “summer slide”—a significant decrease in reading and math skills over summer break, a phenomenon that hits poor kids particularly hard. The summer slide is a real problem, and we don’t want to diminish it, but particularly after the year that we’ve all just...

Children's lack of reading and comprehension skills can be a detrimental factor toward their academic development and overall success in the future. Therefore, it is important for parents, and early childhood educators to support a child's learning with supplemental reading materials. Furthermore - the best way to stimulate understanding of the written material, is to enable the child to translate what they learned from the story into illustrations or narratives. -   - These ideals are promot...Read the full story at https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=275272