TikTok is the most popular app in the world since it first appeared in 2018, and now has more than 1 billion users with half their users aged 16-24 and many more younger than this. According to Wired, this rapid rise also has meant that they have had issues with regulatory authorities for “moderation and…
La información que está proliferando ahora sobre las redes sociales y sus efectos está mostrándonos lo malo que pueden ser, sobre todo para niños y jóvenes adultos. En un artículo de La Vanguardia citan una investigación de la Universidad de Harvard donde “evidenciaron un empeoramiento de síntomas depresivos en función de la red social y…
Apps are still big business, with an estimated 218 billion downloads in 2020, and more than 250 million daily app downloads between 2019–2020. However, what people do not realise is that some of these contain what is now being termed “stalkerware”. According to the New York Times, this rapidly expanding group of apps is growing:…
The pandemic has left many casualties, both directly and indirectly. Of the indirect casualties, according to the BBC, is learning itself. In England the Education Policy Institute has suggested that lifetime earnings by children who missed out on education equates to a 1% earning loss, which does not seem much until the figure is quantified…
A pesar de aparentes avances, según el diario ABC, España sigue a la cola de Europa en cuanto a su nivel de inglés. Desgraciadamente desde 2014 las políticas educativas no han ayudado a la situación en la que nos encontramos, con una “discreta 33ª posición dentro del EF EPI 2021, el ranking mundial de inglés…
Economist Impact and WeProtect Global Alliance recently conducted a study of more than 5,000 18 – 20 year olds in 54 countries around the world with a view to find out more about their experiences of online sexual harms. According to the report “The internet, social media and other digital apps / platforms…can be used…
Facebook, now Meta, is probably one of the most scrutinised companies in the world. Perhaps rightly so, as the company has had to tackle a recent barrage of bad publicity about their practices – putting profits before children’s mental health – and even before this had been challenged about their plan to launch a version…
El mundo ha estado obsesionado en los últimos meses con series como El Juego del Calamar. Sin embargo, según un artículo publicado recientemente en Educación 3.0, hay muchos otros programas que a pesar de títulos que parecen inocuos, no lo son. En el caso de la serie de Corea del Sur – El Juego del…
Research carried out over 30 years by the Institute of Education at University College London (UCL), as reported in TES recently, has confirmed what many teachers know instinctively, that a direct link exists between vocabulary gaps and good behaviour. All of this points to the fact that it is of vital importance to help children…
The loss of six months worth of education due to the Coronavirus has inevitably taken its toll on students, teachers, parents and other actors in this drama. In the UK, by no means the worst hit country, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper “4 in 10 pupils have not been in regular contact with their…