HeyJaredMillennial Mom Thoughts
Two millennial moms...sharing some thoughts. As parents and as education professionals, we discuss our past, present, and future relationships with changing technologies.
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EPISODE 55: Pumpkins, Books, and Public Testimony (opens the original)
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It’s episode fifty-freakin’-five, everyone…just don’t tell Helen’s mom! We are fresh off the Morton Pumpkin Festival weekend, and it was filled with rides, wristbands, runs, and parades. Jordan shares the exciting news that she will be facilitating an after-school club at her son’s elementary school for 4th-6th graders reading The Amazing Generation . Speaking of good books, Helen is about 85% through the audiobook for Natasha Singer’s newest book, Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public
EPISODE 54: Go UnPluggEd! A conversation with Kathleen Barlow (opens the original)
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If you are looking for a reason to hit reset on your technology use in your home or classroom, The UnPluggEd Project happening in October is just what you need! We are joined this week by Kathleen Barlow , a former teacher, mom of six, ScreenStrong Ambassador, and a strong advocate for kids and families. Though Helen was present for this fantastic conversation, you won’t hear much from her because she quite literally lost her voice. We start off learning all about Kathleen’s journey to the advoc
EPISODE 53: Throwing frisbees and jumping through hoops! (opens the original)
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The countdown to the Morton Pumpkin Festival is on, and the smell of rotting pumpkins is filling the air! Helen gives an update about her classes, including how she and her students are navigating her mostly-device-free technology policy. She talks through the examples of when classwork does allow for the use of devices and how she is using the tech intentionally with her students. Jordan shares about a recent local radio segment, “ What to know about Illinois’ cell phone ban in schools, ” from
EPISODE 52: Meta has to pay billions...now what? (opens the original)
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When you need to get some energy out, crank up the tunes (maybe even some Sesame Street hits) and dance! Or at least that is what these two Millennial Moms recommend. Jordan shares the final update to her community grant project: all of the screen-free activity bins are now out! Then we dive into all of the details of the recent Meta settlement . In case you didn’t see the news, Meta will be paying up to $17.1 billion to forty-eight states over the next ten years and will be making several platf
EPISODE 51: A Grab Bag of Millennial Mom Thoughts (opens the original)
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Sometimes when one of the Millennial Moms has her basement flood for multiple days, you plan nothing for your episode and instead go for a “grab bag” of topics. Turns out that works out great because we got to talk about a variety of important and interesting things! Jordan shares about several upcoming webinars for parents, educators, or literally anyone--all shared on the ever-growing Google doc . Two of the webinars will feature Natasha Singer, who has a new book, Coding Kids , releasing on S
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