Cheat Sheet: How To Ace Zoom School
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Anna is sure the amount of time her two children spend on YouTube or Roblox cannot be good for them. With remote learning this fall, Anna is worried their addiction to screens is only going to worsen, stunting their imagination and exposing them to dangers online. In this episode of How To!, we bring on Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World, to help Anna figure out the most constructive ways to monitor and guide her children's screen time. The first step, Devorah says, is to realize not all screen time is created equal. Stop thinking of technology as the enemy. Instead, how can you help your kids translate their obsession with video games or social media into real-world skills?
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| 0:00.0 | Would you say you like school right now? |
| 0:03.0 | No. Why not? |
| 0:05.0 | Um, it's boring and it's hard to socialize within Zoom. |
| 0:09.0 | Do you like, sometimes do other things on your computer besides class? |
| 0:12.0 | Mm. |
| 0:13.0 | I know I do. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, like what? |
| 0:15.0 | Minecraft? |
| 0:16.0 | You do Minecraft and you're supposed to be doing class? |
| 0:19.0 | Sometimes. |
| 0:20.0 | You're listening to how-to.'m Charles Doeigh and those were my two sons. |
| 0:27.0 | And I thought I would check in with them about their online education |
| 0:30.0 | because this is our first episode in a three-part back-to-school series called Cheat-Shetheat. |
| 0:35.0 | And considering that I just learned my son plays Minecraft when he's supposed to be doing homework, |
| 0:39.0 | it's probably a good thing we're doing the series right now. |
| 0:42.0 | We have gotten so many emails from |
| 0:44.3 | parents who are struggling to keep their kids on track. Yes and we're in for the long |
| 0:48.6 | hall and now it feels like there's probably a right way to do it with a capital R and I don't know what it is. |
| 0:55.8 | Whereas before it was like, well, you know, whatever we're all doing the best we can. |
| 1:00.8 | This is Anna from Texas. She just got word that her two kids like mine will be in virtual school this year. |
| 1:07.0 | I think I anticipated that this was going to happen, but the reality of getting the word from school was pretty demoralizing. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, and it's kind of like this like body blow, right? |
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