Tech for school and learning

12 parts, in order. A new one goes up most weeks, so this list grows until the series is complete.

  1. Set Up a Device Your Child Can Actually Study OnHow to choose between a shared family device, a phone and a laptop for schoolwork, then set it up so studying is the easy option.
  2. The Four Things That Decide an Online ClassThe four physical things that decide whether an online class is useful, and a two-minute check to run before it starts.
  3. Typing, Saving, Naming: The Skills School AssumesThe small computer skills nobody teaches but every teacher expects: typing, saving where you can find it, and sending work that opens.
  4. The Homework List That Does Not Get AbandonedOne place for what is due, one place for notes, and a five-minute evening routine that keeps both honest past week three.
  5. The Blackboard Photo You Never Look At AgainTurn the pile of classroom-board and textbook photos already on a phone into a revision set your child actually opens before a test.
  6. Not All Free Study Material Is Worth the TimeWhere genuinely free, syllabus-matched study material sits in India, and how to judge any free resource before losing a week to it.
  7. How to Tell a Learning App From a Time-WasterA short, practical test to run on any learning app or online course before it starts eating evenings and monthly payments.
  8. How to Do a School Project Without Copy-PasteReading more than one source, writing in your own words, and tracking where things came from so credit takes two minutes at the end.
  9. Homework Help That Still Leaves You LearningOne simple test that separates help which teaches from help which merely finishes the work, whoever or whatever the help came from.
  10. Whose Account Is Your Child's Schoolwork Sitting In?School-issued accounts in plain English: who controls them, what happens when your child changes schools, and how to keep your own copy.
  11. Where a Phone Should Sit While Your Child StudiesThe one place to keep a phone during study blocks, what to change when the phone is itself the study device, and how to take a break that actually rests.
  12. A One-Page Device Charter for Exam WeeksWrite the exam-week device rules down together before exams start, including the parents' own rules, so nothing gets renegotiated at nine at night.

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