Teacher Programmes
Studies show a correlation between increased phone use and lower academic performance. Click below to learn how.
Teacher Programmes
Studies show a correlation between increased phone use and lower academic performance. Click below to learn how.
Outline of the Teacher programs
Studies show a correlation between increased phone use and lower academic performance. Here’s how:
- Distraction: Constant phone checking disrupts attention, making it harder to focus on lessons.
- Interruptions: Notifications and incoming messages pull students away from learning tasks.
- Reduced Engagement: Students may spend more time on their phones than actively participating in class.
- Lower Grades: Distraction and reduced engagement can lead to poorer performance on assignments and tests.
- Less Learning: Students may miss key information or fail to grasp
The digital landscape is an undeniable force in students’ lives, shaping how they learn, socialize, and grow. It’s a powerful reminder that, while screens are undeniably “a good servant, they can be a horrible master.” Our challenge is to empower students to wield technology mindfully, ensuring it enhances their lives rather than controls them.
Empowering Educators: Navigating Social Media's Impact in Schools
Understanding how students’ at-home media use influences their academic skills and social development is crucial for today’s schools. Teachers, spending a significant portion of their time with young people, are uniquely positioned to observe these shifts. Their insights, gathered through experience and direct observation, offer an invaluable perspective on the complex dynamics between digital engagement, academic progress, and social well-being within the educational environment.
While digital tools have revolutionized learning, true success isn’t just about implementing technology; it’s about guiding students to cultivate a healthy, balanced relationship with it.
The Educator's View: Unpacking the Observations
- Academic Development Concerns:
- A noticeable decline in attention spans.
- Reduced ability to persist through difficult tasks, often preferring to “restart” rather than problem-solve.
- Deterioration in writing skills.
- The double-edged sword of instant information access: while immediate answers are available, it can hinder students’ ability to grapple with uncertainty, foster curiosity, or engage in deeper critical thinking.
- Neglect of homework and class preparation due to time spent with digital media.
- Insufficient study for tests and exams, overshadowed by online activities.
- Concerns about students’ ability to communicate face-to-face and their competency in analytical and critical thinking.
- Social Development Concerns:
- Significant challenges related to misinformation about healthy relationships and intimacy, often stemming from social media content.
- Detrimental effects on healthy interactions between students, and their attitudes towards peers and adults.
- An increase in anti-social behaviours such as online bullying, body image issues, and aggressive tendencies.
- Over-exposure to age-inappropriate explicit materials and music with sexually suggestive content from an early age.
Overview of the teacher-training program.
- TIME: 1 hour, 30 minutes Teachers can and should be teaching digital life skills to their students, and this program aims to do just that.
- To develop and introduce a literacy program that teaches how to use technology safely, wisely, ethically and productively.
- It aims to help youth discover how to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits technology offers.
- It will be a guide on how to teach kids who is raised in a digital world who will become the positive and successful leaders our country desperately needs.
Standards:
- The program will be packed with discussion topics.
- Enjoyable activities.
- Practical tips grounded in academic research.
- Hands-on experience.
Standards:
- To teach teachers the digital life skills they’d need to use technology safely and wisely
- To educate teachers how to train kids to navigate this ever-changing environment through:
- Developing social-emotional skills
- Balancing virtual life and real life
- Building safe and healthy relationships
- Avoiding cyberbullies and online predators
- Protecting personal information
- Becoming positive role models and leaders
- Empowering youth to use technology well.
- Help teachers to educate young people to have a safe, healthy, and productive relationship with their devices.
- The program will cover the entire spectrum of digital literacy, and some topics will be emphasized with more in-dept training such as pornography and social media.
Topics to choose from:
- Children in a digital world
- Interpreting children’s drawings (aimed at the foundation phase teacher)
- Cyber bullying
- Good pictures, bad pictures: How to have the talk about pornography to a very young generation
- The dilemma of too many games
- The gender identity issue
- The war on children (Biblical based)
- Trauma support for children
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