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The Daily Article

A principal reads to her students on Facebook Live: How technology can and can’t improve our lives

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, Daily News, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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TODAY'S DAILY ARTICLE

Technology can change our lives, but it cannot change our souls. Today's podcast explores the one commitment that brings eternal life in heaven and purposeful life on earth.

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0:00.0

Because you listen to the Daily Article podcast, we want you to be one of the first people to receive our new Easter devotional guide, Journey to the Resurrection.

0:07.8

So many people in our modern society believe Jesus's death and resurrection are nothing more than a myth.

0:13.2

But you know the truth.

0:14.7

Not only is the resurrection real, it's life-changing.

0:17.8

We pray that this new devotional will strengthen your conviction and help prepare

0:21.1

your heart and mind for Easter. Request your copy when you give today at Denisonforum.org

0:25.9

slash journey. That's Denisonforum.org slash journey. And thanks for your partnership to raise up

0:32.6

more culture-changing Christians. Now, here's today's daily article. A principal reads to her students on Facebook

0:40.0

Live, how technology can and can't improve our lives. This is Jim Denison's The Daily Article

0:45.1

podcast for Wednesday, March 13th, 2019. I don't know what you did last night, but I'll bet it

0:50.0

wasn't more significant than the way Belinda George spent her evening. Dr. George is the first

0:54.6

year principal of Homer Drive Elementary School in Beaumont, Texas. Her students' reading scores

0:58.8

last year were low, so she launched tucked-in Tuesdays in December. She dresses in costumes

1:03.8

from a onesie with a unicorn head to a cookie monster outfit to pajamas covered with pink hearts.

1:09.5

When her students log on to their school's Facebook page, she reads books to them over her iPhone.

1:13.6

She acts out the stories as the kids type in questions.

1:16.6

Dr. George grew up with five sisters in a three-bedroom trailer.

1:19.6

Her father never learned to read.

1:21.6

She learned her love of reading from her school librarian in Louisiana.

1:25.6

Now she is paying it forward.

1:32.6

Technology affects every dimension of our lives today from the airplanes we ride to the cars we drive, the homes we inhabit, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. The innovations of our

1:37.5

day can be a force for tremendous good as Dr. George's Facebook live reading sessions show.

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