Study: Almost All High Schoolers Use Cell Phones to Access Social Media During Class
94 percent of high school students accessed social media on their phones during class Study shows most common use of the Internet in class was to access social media sites, followed by listening to music, playing games, and sending text messages and photos. Of Israeli high school pupils 94% access social media via their cell phones during class, reveals a new study conducted by the University of Haifa. Only 4% reported not using their cell phones at all during class. It was also found that in classes with more permissive teachers, cell phone use was lower than in classes where the teacher imposed strict discipline. “The students use their mobile phones in various ways –
Perfect SAT Score for Philly Junior
A good read about a young high school student dedicated to academic excellence. His secret? Hard work, persistence, preparation, practice, focus, double-checking… Perfect SAT score for Cameron Clarke, Germantown Academy senior in Philadelphia Jenice Armstrong Philly.com, December 18, 2012 WE’VE ALL read depressing newspaper stories about underachieving local high school students. This, I’m happy to say, isn’t that kind of column. No, I’ve set aside this space to give a well-deserved thumbs-up to Cameron Clarke, a senior at Germantown Academy who scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT. That’s right. A perfect score. That hardly ever happens. Although more than 1.66 million students took the SAT in 2012, only 360 test takers nationwide achieved a
Resources for Coping
The tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut is being felt throughout the nation and the world. The National Association of School Psychologists offers resources for parents and educators to help children better cope with the heartbreaking news. Bethesda, MD-On behalf of our 25,000 members, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) joins the nation in expressing our sadness and shock at the horrific events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT today. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by this heartbreaking tragedy. It is important to keep in mind that an event like this is rare. Schools are one of the safest places for children and youth during the school day, and an
A Key Factor in the College Search: Learning Style
Perspective on finding the ideal college from the NYT Blogs: Applicants may well achieve some degree of serenity by asking themselves — or permitting their families or teachers or friends to ask them — a question that is so obvious yet often overlooked: What is your learning style? When you are going to be paying off college debts for the foreseeable future, you’d better make sure your college fits your preferred learning style. While there are several good inventories online that can help students understand how they learn best (see, for example, www.learning-styles-online.com/), high school students can also fashion such a questionnaire for themselves. What they discover in the process can then inform them as
Humans Think Like Quantum Particles
Scientific American reports quantum physicists have discovered that quantum mechanics enlarges our capacity to reason in unexpected ways. The notorious Prisoner’s Dilemma, in which the rational choice is the wrong choice, can be eliminated by quantum entanglement. A more recent (and still unproved) claim is that a quantum system of voting could avoid the inconsistencies of ordinary voting. Quantum mechanics may be a better model for human behavior than classical logic, which fails to predict the human impulse to cooperate and act altruistically. Instead of trying to force our thinking into a rational framework, we are better off expanding the framework.
Research Highlights Strengths Of Adolescent Brain
NPR talks with researchers who’ve found the teen-age brain may be much more complicated than previously believed. The reason: Adolescents need flexibility to absorb and process new information to make rational, more than impulsive, decisions. Research Highlights Strengths Of Adolescent Brain by JON HAMILTON NPR.org October 22, 2012 Adolescent brains have gotten a bad rap, according to neuroscientists. It’s true that teenage brains can be impulsive, scientists reported at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans. But adolescent brains are also vulnerable, dynamic and highly responsive to positive feedback.
