How I created GetTime, an app to ease student stress
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How one high school senior developed an app that can help students manage stress—and their schedules—in a stressful time Continue reading
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Lesson plan: Bot or not? How fake social media accounts could influence voting
Lesson Plan
Social media is an important tool for learning about current events and practicing active and informed citizenship. However, fake Twitter accounts called ‘bots’ have been used to try to influence public opinion—and not always for the better. Continue reading
Do you control your phone or does your phone control you?
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As we turn to our screens more and more, it is important to understand why modern society finds smartphones so addicting and the implications of this worldwide epidemic on our brains. Download a tracking app such as Moment to monitor how many times you engage with your phone daily and how much time is spent on various apps. Continue reading
Lesson plan: Invent an app that helps your community
Lesson Plan
Several young entrepreneurs in California’s rural Salinas Valley are inventing new apps to boost the economy and bring about new jobs. In this PBS NewsHour lesson, students will also have the opportunity to design their own app that helps their community. Continue reading