2011 Nov 30  NBC NEWS The Daily Nightly The Waldorf Way: Silicon Valley School Eschews Technology  (See who's paying to send their children to a school that chooses NOT to incorporate technology into the classroom...)

 http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9118340-the-waldorf-way-silicon-valley-school-eschews-technology?threadId=3284603&commentId=60370968 

2011 June 22  Black Hills High School Art Department Observations in Visual Arts Courses

Comparison of Grade Earnings to Number of Incidents in Class with Personal Electronic Devices

CLASSROOM POLICY: "Keep it put away, out of sight and sound, for the duration of the class period."

"Incidents" include confiscations, reminders & requests to put it away, and/or sightings of policy violations.

110622 Grades & Gadget Use Comparison.xls

110622 Gadget Use & Grade Earnings Comparison.xls

110624 Average Grade per Number of Incidents.xls

2011 June 18  INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES  Online game addiction: Mothers hooked up on Facebook leave children to drown, die on road  http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/165111/20110618/colorado-farmville-facebook-games-messages-killer-child-mother-negligence-online-mother-toddler-shan.htm

2011 March 26  MSN Careers - careerbuilder.com  Tech Etiquette: Learning the Rules of the (Digital) Road  http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-2547-Workplace-Issues-Tech-etiquette-Learning-the-rules-of-the-digital-road/?SiteId=cbmsnhp42547&sc_extcmp=JS_2547_home1>1=23000

2011 March 21  Canadian University Press - NEWSWIRE  Putting Away the Gadgets in Class  http://cupwire.ca/articles/44356

2011 February 14  Black Hills High School Art Department  Observations in Visual Arts Courses 

Comparison of Grade Earnings to Number of Incidents in Class with Personal Electronic Devices 

CLASSROOM POLICY: "Keep it put away, out of sight and sound, for the duration of the class period."

"Incidents" include confiscations, reminders & requests to put it away, and/or sightings of policy violations.

110202 Comparison of Grades to Incidents w Personal Electronics.xls

110202 Comparison of Incidents w Personal Electronics to Grades Earned.xls

5 Basic Skills Necessary to Draw  http://www.youcandraw.com/5skillsofobservation.html

2010 November 21  The New York Times: Business Day Technology  Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html?_r=2&ref=education

2010 August 11  BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK  ...Not Having A Cell Phone Means That The World Has To Run On Your Time  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38646066/ns/business-bloomberg_businessweek/#headline

RSA Animate  Changing Education Paradigms  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress for over 250 years.

2010 June 21  Black Hills High School Art Department  Observations in Visual Arts Courses 

Comparison of Grade Earnings Among Users of Personal Electronics in Class 

100621a Grades of Heavy vs Never Users of Personal Electronics in Class.xls

2010 June 06 The New York Times 

 TEST YOUR FOCUS / TEST HOW FAST YOU JUGGLE TASKS  

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html

2010 June 06 The New York Times  YOUR BRAIN ON COMPUTERS: Attached to Technology and Paying a Price  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2

2010 May 10 Harvard Business Review "How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking"  http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/05/how-and-why-to-stop-multitaski.html

2010 April 20 Pew Internet (Pew Research Center) Teens and Mobile Phones  http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx

Tumwater Grad Killed Texting While Driving  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT0k--HnHrM

Why the Emphasis on Drawing from Observation?, http://www2.goshen.edu/~marvinpb/lessons/rabbit.html  

2010 February 02  FRONTLINE Report, DIGITAL NATION: Life on the Virtual Frontier

2010 January 20  Kaiser Report on DAILY MEDIA USE AMONG CHILDREN AND TEENS

A studio is a place of creative work and studious play.  At the studio facilitator's discretion there may at times be music or films playing for all to work to, enjoy, appreciate or even learn from.  In this studio, distractions from personal electronics/toys are not welcome.  These items "remove" people from the group studio experience.  They make studio members miss information and opportunities for interaction.  They create disruptions, confusions and misunderstandings over attentiveness, propriety and conduct.  In short they contribute to the disintigration of a shared studio environment.  The Visual Arts studio at Black Hills High School is a personal-electronics-free zone.