Digital Playground - Teachers <UHD>

For the last decade, teachers have stood at the edge of the digital playground, hands on their hips, shouting "Get off that phone!" It hasn't worked. The kids didn't leave the playground; they just learned to hide their screens under their desks.

Many of us did not grow up in the digital playground. We are "digital immigrants" teaching "digital natives." We feel clumsy. We fear looking stupid in front of our students. Digital Playground - Teachers

By banning the digital playground, we have abdicated our role as teachers. For the last decade, teachers have stood at

By: The Modern Educator’s Guild

We must stop acting as hall monitors for the digital world and start acting as Part I: The Failure of the "Digital Jail" Let’s be honest about the current strategy. Most school IT policies are built on fear. We create walled gardens—restricted networks where only "approved" educational sites bloom. We call this "safety." We are "digital immigrants" teaching "digital natives