Tag: social media

3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv

Woman taking a book from a free lending library box by the sidewalk

Issue #315, 14th July 2026 https://niveditamukerjee.com/ Book desert. Some homes have book deserts. Some schools have book deserts. Some classes have book deserts. Some schools have book deserts. And then we expect our children and students to be good readers, speakers, writers. Textbooks don’t do… Continue Reading “3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv”

3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv

School common area featuring middle school, lower school play zone, and upper school lounge with students

Issue #314, 7th July 2026 https://niveditamukerjee.com/ We are an anxious lot. Parents and educators. Scary stories are thus easier to sell to us adults who are the primary and secondary caregivers, nurturers, and teachers of children entrusted to us or born to us. Are teens… Continue Reading “3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv”

3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv

Boy using tablet, handheld gaming device, smartphone, and video game console in different indoor and car settings

Issue #313, 30th June 2026 https://niveditamukerjee.com/ Do you keep your phone next to your bed when you go to sleep? Is it the last thing you look at and the first thing you look at when you get up? What is the total screen time… Continue Reading “3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv”

3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv

Classroom monitoring system with tracking technology versus small group individualized education for ages 8-12.

Issue #312, 23rd June 2026 https://niveditamukerjee.com/ This weekend we went to visit the British Schools Museum. The last Monitorial Schoolroom in the world. Also known as the Madras System or Bell-Lancaster method was an early 19th-century educational approach designed to school hundreds of poor children… Continue Reading “3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv”

3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv

Grandmother with family enjoying a tablet on a couch

Issue #311, 16th June 2026 https://niveditamukerjee.com/ Show up, reach out, check in. Connect, connect connect… that is something we need to weave into our parenting and our school/college/university education. Children, adolescents, adults are growing up to be more lonely and alone in this hyperconnected world.… Continue Reading “3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv”

3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv

Audience members using mobile phones at a community workshop on social media AI

Issue #310, 9th June 2026 https://niveditamukerjee.com/ Phone-based childhood. Social media influenced teenagers. What is it doing to our children’s growing brains and to each of us as social beings when we already know that much of our social bonding involves bodies? When we eat food… Continue Reading “3-2-1 Tuesdays with Ms Niv”

Teaching your teen time management

“Ma! I am tired now, please don’t tell me to clean my room.” “But dad, I have been on the net for only an hour, how can you say I have been on face book all day!” “I have no time to chill. All… Continue Reading “Teaching your teen time management”