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Critical Thinking Will Empower Students to Become Wise Consumers

With the release of AI to the public, it becomes even more important to train our children to critically evaluate what they are being bombarded with on their devices and television programing. Others may not agree, but I believe the introduction of AI is resulting in consumers wondering, “Is this real or AI.” The most

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Homework Ailments Are Plaguing Homes Everywhere

The following article was published in the Register newspaper in 2002. As I reflect on it, the same issues still exist. Although there have been programs that schools have spent thousands of dollars to solve, none have delivered quite like the Homework Doc’s methods. The only challenge facing us today that did not exist is

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Parental Controls Offer a False Sense of Security

Student’s innocence makes them targets of those who know parental protection is not guaranteed. Parents being offered parental control options are receiving a false sense of security. ChatGPT just announced a new feature. Some parents are cheering. I am cautioning parents to not feel their children are protected. The only way to truly protect users

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Students Want Control

Tell you little one, “Don’t touch the stove.” What do they do? They touch the stove. If told, “The stove is hot and burns,” most won’t touch it and the ones who do, will realize what hot means. Telling students not to use their devices creates a temptation to do just that. When students realize

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Surrendering Phones: Results Are Worth Our Attention

Del Oro softball Team Coach traded their player’s cell phones for flip phones that could be used to contact parents when they were not at home. It was a 30-day digital detox. The idea was simple: All girls in the Del Oro softball program will turned in their smartphones on Jan. 31 during the program’s

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AI APPs: They’re gaining speed! Are We Prepared?

When I write my blogs, I often have the television playing sappy movies in the background. The devices are a new frontier we really know very little about and it is changing exponentially faster everyday, so it is tough to know what we need to look out for. As I was working, I looked up

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AI Creates for Users, But at What Cost?

“This AI creates a prompt for me, and I don’t have to even do any thinking,” was used to promote a new AI App. How nice to have someone to think for users. There are helpful aspects of technology, but at what cost? Apps can be helpful when examining what other ideas are out there,

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“Ask Smarter Questions,” Harvard Business Review

While walking the concourse in McCaren airport, I spied the Harvard Business Review on the magazine rack. In big bold letter was “Ask Smarter Questions, The Key to Better Strategic Decision-Making.” Promoting questions has been my focus as an educator for the past 54 years. Students’ questions and my own have been the key to

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Ban AI and It Becomes the Forbidden Fruit

Banning anything makes it the forbidden fruit and creates more of a desire to use it. Offering the fruit alone is not going to protect our children. Before we put our young people behind the wheel of a car, we warn them of all the hazards connected with driving one. We need to do the

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About Victoria

Victoria is an educational consultant, nationally recognized speaker. Her over 50 years in education has been focused on developing resilient self-reliant self-advocates who know how to tap into their innate ability to independently solve challenges.

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