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  Digital Tools and Distraction in School We should be deliberately teaching middle and high school students how to manage their devices. By  Mary Beth Hertz January 17, 2014 Updated July 25, 2017 ©Shutterstock.com/Syda Productions As computers become less expensive, many schools are opting to bring low-cost machines such as Chromebooks into the classroom. While this has opened the door to exciting new learning opportunities, with these devices—as well as students’ smartphones—come new challenges, including the distraction factor. How do we teach students to integrate technology into their schoolwork and their learning while also making sure that they’re staying focused on the task at hand? Focus and Multitasking In “ Age of Distraction: Why It’s Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus ,” Katrina Schwartz refers to studies showing that the ability to focus on a task has been linked to future success. She quotes psychologist Daniel Goleman: “This abi...

                "Under a mushroom" "Once upon a time there was an ant. One day, the ant was walking in the  forest and it started to rain very hard."  Ant: - Where can I find a shelter?  "Then, the little ant saw a beautiful mushroom and it ran under it to wait till it  stopped raining".  "But the rain was harder and harder. After a while a butterfly with soaked  wings arrived, it was so wet that it could no longer fly, it crawled under the  mushroom and said":  - Ant, ant, let me find shelter under the mushroom! I am all wet, I am cold and  I cannot fly.  The ant answered: - There’s not enough room and we will be very tight but it  does not matter, because we will be in good harmony.  "The butterfly and the ant sheltered themselves under the mushroom while it  continued raining more and more. After a short while a small little mouse  arrived runni...

Character Education 4 Proven Strategies for Teaching Empathy Help your students understand the perspectives of other people with these tried-and-tested methods. By Dr. Donna Wilson and Dr. Marcus Conyers January 4, 2017 Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Empathy has the capacity to transform individual lives for the better while helping to bring about positive social change in schools and communities worldwide. In psychology, there are currently two common approaches to empathy: shared emotional response and perspective taking. Shared emotional response, or affective empathy, occurs when an individual shares another person’s emotions. […]. Perspective taking, also known as cognitive empathy, occurs when a person is able to imagine herself in the situation of another. […]. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” H...