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If we don't want our children to react like

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a heroin addict when they've got to get off screen time, we've got

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to think about what are some amazing apps that we have that

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are out there that are not going to create this crazy adrenaline

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cortisol response. Welcome to Neuroeducation, where

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we're exploring the neuroscience of how to switch on the brain to

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supercharge learning. I'll be sharing with you innovative teaching techniques,

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effective parenting strategies, and educational advocacy. I'm

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your host, Angie Dee. Together, let's revolutionize children's

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learning. Welcome to

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Newer Education with Angie Dee. Thanks for

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tuning in. Today we're going to talk about educational

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apps that make you go snap. Now we all know

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that apps and

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computer, screen time, iPad time, whatever it

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may be, screen time can be absolutely

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fabulous. A, to give yourself a break as

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a parent or to implement in school teaching

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that can obviously help children learn. There are

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lots of apps that are absolutely fantastic and

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there are lots of apps that I would say are a big no

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no no. What is the reason for this? The reason for

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this is that some computer games

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that we have in this day and age, even if they might be

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educational, they wire

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our kids for a dopamine hit and The

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best way to navigate this is I would say a

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computer game that is making children do

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something incredibly fast. I don't know if you know

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Temple Run but they're like running they've got to run and they've got to jump and

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they've got to run they've got to jump and oh my god they're gonna die and they're gonna run and they're gonna jump. If

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you're doing something like that you can imagine what's going on inside

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the child's brain. the kind of adrenaline cortisol

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pumping through their veins, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then when you say, okay,

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time to hop off, what's going to happen? Oh, they're

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going to crack. Why? Because it's literally like they're on

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crack. These kinds of games have been shown to be as

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addictive as drugs. So if We

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don't want our children to react like a heroin addict

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when they've got to get off screen time. You've got to think about what

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are some amazing apps that we have that are out there that

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are not going to create this crazy adrenaline cortisol response.

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So today I have four apps for you that I

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highly recommend and there are more if you have more ideas message

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me or comment down below with some great app

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ideas if you have other suggestions. But here are

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my four. Number one, a maths app, Timestable

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Rockstar. Why I love Timestable Rockstar is

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everybody has their own little character as they get more points

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and do more times tables they get to play

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their little rock star add some cute little things to their outfits but

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the children can see how they improve with

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speed of how they write, how

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fast they answer the questions of their rounds and

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also they see how many they get incorrect. And

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I feel like this fits into a growth mindset. We know

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that if children have a fixed mindset they think oh I'm

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terrible at that and I'm never going to get better and that's just

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how it's going to be forever. But with a growth mindset,

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children see with more effort, I see that I can

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improve. And I think Timestable Rockstar does this in

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both of those two ways. A, the children see their

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response time and how they're answering response time can get

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faster. And obviously as they get more and

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more correct out of each round. My daughter

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personally didn't love maths. And

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after the school assigned Time Sable Rockstar as

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some homework, she decided to start doing

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five minutes a day. And I was amazed to

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see that when she came to me, she was so happy

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to say, mom, look, I've improved. I'm like a second

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faster and look at this. So she could see that she was improving.

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Before this, her attitude towards maths was, You

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know, my dad's a math teacher. Both of my boys love

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maths. My son Santiago was doing polynomial algebraic

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division in grade six, loves it. My

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daughter didn't, but I

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say times table rock stars flip that around.

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more time she could improve. So that's

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my number one app. suggestion. Number two

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is a simple game. It's called crossword journey

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word games. And you get to create,

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you have usually some words in a circle, and

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you can create different words by touching different

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letters. But it's a fantastic game for problem solving

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different word patterns. And if you

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have something like phonograms or phonics that you're trying to

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teach your children, this is a great way to build that because

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they're trying to find all the words that, oh, there's an O and a U and

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an S and a T and it's, oh, it's shh. S,

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H, O, U, O, U, T, and then, okay, this is shout,

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and then maybe this is some other word that has the

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same spelling pattern, shout, and out. So there's C, that O,

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U, makes the ow sound every time.

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And it really builds that in through repetition in a fun way. So

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that's my number two go-to app. Number three.

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is Duolingo. Now, Duolingo not

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only is for learning languages, but they have Duolingo for maths, Duolingo

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for even learning your letters and learning your words.

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do a variety of ways. If you take

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learning languages for an example, They will

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get you to say it. They will get you to write it.

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They'll get you to listen to it and then respond to it. And

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they'll get you to match it. They're trying to do it in a variety of

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different ways that really helps children learn. I've

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seen a huge amount of children playing Duolingo

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and improving their second or third language skills with

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Duolingo. And I've also seen children using Duolingo

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for English and for maths. and I think it's

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a fantastic app that has a variety of

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subjects that you can learn from and they do it in a really good

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way. The last one is a nice

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art app. Now Because there are

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so many computer games and there are so many apps

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that are just making our children's brains go

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wild, whether they're shooting some fictional person

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or when they're trying to escape something that's chasing

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after them. It's nice to have an app that

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has a creative aspect, but it's also more calming. And

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I would say the next app is just that. It's

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called Pottery. dot lv and

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what it allows you to do is to take

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a piece of clay and move the clay with your

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fingers. So if you have an ipad even if you have the phone you're moving

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the clay you're expanding the clay and with your fingers

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you're gently creating this beautiful piece of pottery which

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you then can sell for a certain amount of

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money, but you can decorate it, you can paint it, you can add different

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patterns. So it might be an African little pattern

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you put around your pottery, or it could be a little Asian pattern or

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a Greek pattern, whatever it may be, but children get

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to have this creative experience. obviously

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will never beat the real world, but it's a beautiful side

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kind of creative app that allows them

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to do something that calms them down. I would

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say one of the most important things to think about

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when it comes to screen time in your child is

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everything in moderation. There are some children,

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unfortunately, the statistics in Australia, that are

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having four to five hours of screen time a day. And when it

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goes to high school, the stats are insane. The

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stats in high school in Australia are that some children are on

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screen times for over seven hours a day, if

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not more. When we think about that, we have to

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ask ourselves, is that healthy? Is

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that healthy for our children? Is it healthy for their emotions?

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Is that healthy for their development? And I would have to

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say, with many psychologists behind

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me, that the resounding answer is no. So

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everything in moderation. I average

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my children on maybe maximum of one hour screen time a

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day. Once the one hour's up, it's capped. And there are some days we don't

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have screen time because we're having outdoor days. And for

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some children, I know screen time is hard.

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It's hard to get children off. And when children are hitting

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the roof and screaming when they get off, some parents think, oh,

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it's just easy to leave them on it. Forget about it. We're going to leave them there.

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However, The sad thing is this

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is not setting them up for success in life. It's not setting them up for

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holistic education in terms of being a well-rounded individual

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emotionally, physically, mentally. And one of my best tips

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for getting kids off screen and into the real world in a positive way

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is doing positive things with your children. outside of

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the home. Whether that's let's go for a nightly walk

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around the block, let's go for a walk along the beach if you have

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an esplanade near your home or something nice, let's go and bounce the

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basketball for half an hour or play tennis or

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whatever it is. If you're doing something fun and engaging with

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your child, which often they want to do, is engaged

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with you in a positive way then you don't have to be trying

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to limit their screen time and having fights with them. It's easier to

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have a short amount of screen time say okay well we've had an hour or

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half an hour for younger children it might be even much smaller

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time 20 minutes or once a week but If

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you make life more exciting than a screen,

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it's easy for children to get off screen time. So that's

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when we want to get them off the screen and into the real

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world. But for those short times when you do want to

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give them a bit of screen time and you want it to be healthy screen time, I hope these

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four apps help. And thank you so much for tuning in again

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