Category: Technology

8 Family Solutions to Better Regulate Screen Time

Available for Interviews: Dr. Pete Loper

Dr. Pete Loper, MD, MSEd, FAAP, is a triple board-certified physician in pediatrics, psychiatry, and child psychiatry. He is also a professor and executive coach and is dedicated to mental health and wellness advocacy.

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Screen Time Effects and Regulation:

Recommended Screen Time Duration for Most Age Groups, Including Adults
    • The most consistent guidelines have been for children one year of age or younger, where the standard recommendation remains no screen time. Children between the ages of 2-4 according to the World Health Organization, or 2-5 according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, generally should have no more than one hour of screen time daily.
    • The absence of consensus regarding screen time duration for older children and adults is due to a so-called lack of data. Particularly in the context of the pandemic, screens have become even more ubiquitous, making it that much harder to study this issue.
    • However, consistent with our era of quantitative bias, where it’s not true unless you can prove it and big data is confounded with truth, the fear regarding screen time is that we are once again attempting to substitute data for common sense.

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Mindfulness Activities Help Kids Balance “Screen” Overload

Available for Interviews:  Nadine Levitt

Nadine Levitt is an education advocate, speaker, and the CEO & Founder of WURRLYedu, an educational technology platform. Nadine specializes in the social-emotional curriculum (SEL), and she is also the author of the children’s book, My Mama Says Inside Me Lives a Village. New for 2022, Levitt has launched a new professional development resource for teachers called PD Reimagined.

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Mindfulness Activities for Kids:

    • Mindfulness really means real-time awareness: consciously tapping into our awareness, which is achievable only when we create space with intention where we can observe thoughts, feelings, sensations, our environment, etc. without any expectation or judgment.

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How Recharging Our Teachers Can Supercharge Our Students

Available for Interviews:  Nadine Levitt

Nadine Levitt is an education advocate, speaker, and the CEO & Founder of WURRLYedu, an educational technology platform. Nadine specializes in the social-emotional curriculum (SEL), and she is also the author of the children’s book, My Mama Says Inside Me Lives a Village. New for 2022, Levitt has launched a new professional development resource for teachers called PD Reimagined.

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A New Professional Development Resource:

    • Teachers are exhausted and feeling overwhelmed. The added pressures that Covid brought only exacerbated the reality that most teachers are stressed, feel unsupported, and under-appreciated (2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey published by RAND).
    • If the goal of schools is to inspire kids to be lifelong learners then we have to start by inspiring teachers!

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Fear Factor: Is Your Fear of Money Hurting You?

Available for Interviews: Suzanne Powell

Suzanne Powell Suzanne is the founder of Capital Strategies Group, and acting Vice-President of Meridian Wealth Management. She is also the author of the newly released book, The Ultimate Money Moves for Women Over 50.

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The Money Fear Factor:

You may dislike dealing with your money as it makes you uncomfortable.
Here’s what to do:

    • Ask yourself, why are you afraid? Write it down, work on it, or get help!

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6 Ways You Can Protect Your Privacy on Workplace Computers

Available for Interviews:  Paul Tracey

Paul Tracey is the Founder & CEO of Innovative Technologies, a Managed Security Service Provider in New York, and is a national speaker, cyber security educator, small business advocate, and author of Delete The Hacker Playbook and Cyber Storm.

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Workplace Computers:

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that that computer you work on day in and day out is not really yours. You might think that your personal life is none of their business, but technically, it is! That means, that everything you do on it is subject to your employer’s information. Here are 6 things you would be wise to avoid or pay attention to when using your employer’s devices:

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The Teacher Retention Crisis Could Cripple Our Education System. Here’s How to Solve it.

Available for Interviews:  Nadine Levitt

Nadine Levitt is an education advocate, speaker, and the CEO & Founder of WURRLYedu, an educational technology platform. Nadine specializes in the social-emotional curriculum (SEL), and she is also the author of the children’s book, My Mama Says Inside Me Lives a Village. 

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The Teacher Retention Crisis:

  • The National Education Association (NEA) survey released in January 2022, showed that 55% of educators are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned (up from 37% in August 2021). EdWeek reported similar numbers with 54% of teachers saying they are “somewhat likely” or “very likely” to leave the teaching profession in the next year. 

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The Future is Coming: U.S. Transition to Electric Cars By 2030

Available for Interviews:  R. Daniel Brdar, CEO of Ideal Power

R. Daniel Brdar is the CEO of Ideal Power, an Austin based company innovating in the space of electric storage, renewable energy, and future energy applications… that will change our world with electric cars and other applications.

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QR Codes: Scanners Beware! Here’s How to Protect Yourself

Available for Interviews:  Paul Tracey

Paul Tracey is the Founder & CEO of Innovative Technologies, a Managed Security Service Provider in New York, and is a national speaker, cyber security educator, small business advocate, and author of Delete The Hacker Playbook and Cyber Storm.

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QR Codes:

 

      • QR codes can be extremely dangerous if we are not vigilant about checking where they resolve to.
      • QR codes can and are used repeatedly at every stage of attacks. They have proven to be quite effective with phishing attacks.

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6 Steps to Automate Your Life, Automate Your Retirement Savings

Available for Interviews: Suzanne Powell

Suzanne Powell Suzanne is the founder of Capital Strategies Group, and acting Vice-President of Meridian Wealth Management. She is also the author of the newly released book, The Ultimate Money Moves for Women Over 50.

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6 Steps to Automate Your Retirement Savings:

A financial advisor shares strategies to get ahead
(for very little money)
      • We’re all so busy. We think we’ll do things tomorrow, but the years pass us by.
      • Good news, there are 6 easy steps for getting your retirement savings going:

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5 Technical Keys for a Successful Virtual Interview

Available for Interviews:  Leni Rivera

Leni Rivera is a Workplace Experience specialist and author of its very first book in the industry, Workplace Experience. Her passion is creating work environments that enable employees to be both productive and happy, regardless of where that is. 

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Preparing for a Virtual Interview:

Working from home has transitioned from being a trend to being the norm, which means that you will likely meet your hiring manager for the first time virtually. In this new environment, it’s vital that your hiring manager feels confident that you can be trusted to do your job from anywhere.

Here are 5 things to consider as you prepare for this virtual interview:

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