From Jim Metrock: How fitting. Yesterday I wrote about the Grinches at Channel One News who rob children of their academic time in school. Today I find the latest post on Channel One’s Facebook page by a student who thinks the best thing about Channel One News is wasting 15 minutes of English class....
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See what Channel One News doesn’t want you to see. What Channel One shows parents is not what students see in their classroom. Channel One does not allow the public to see two minutes of their 12-minute daily program. Channel One News removes both commercial breaks from their web rebroadcast of the show. This...
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On June 4 this was posted on Channel One’s Facebook page. The lazy, pretend journalists at Channel One News have no interest in doing their TV show during the summer or for that matter on any weekend or holiday. They could easily provide young people with an up-to-the-minute news show on their website (unlike...
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By Mitchell Toy From: Sunday Herald Sun July 18, 2010 SOCIAL media networks such as Facebook and Twitter are making teen web surfers dumber, more than half of their parents believe. But less than half believe the sites are impacting on their health and wellbeing. New cyber-safety research commissioned by Telstra reveals 65 per cent of...
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http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/105790/alcohol_pushed_to_kids_on Posted by Jeanne Sager on July 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM Parents, it’s time to stop worrying about perverts on Facebook. And start worrying about the marketers. The alcohol marketers. If your child signs on to Facebook today and enters their real age — anything under 21 — there’s nothing to stop them from...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7858189/Are-Twitter-and-Facebook-affecting-how-we-think.html Are Twitter and Facebook affecting how we think? Is constant use of electronic gadgets reshaping our brains and making our thinking shallower? Neil Tweedie reports. By Neil Tweedie Published: 7:08AM BST 28 Jun 2010 How many times do you click on your email icon in a day? Or look at Facebook, or Twitter? And...
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Anthony Orsini, current principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School. Paul D. Folkemer, former principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School. From Jim Metrock: Anthony Orsini is the common sense, kids-come-first principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, NJ. A former principal of the same school is Paul D. Folkemer who has been working on...
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