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Social Media For School Leaders

A Principal's Reflections

This was the first of three in a series presented by the 2012 Digital Principal Award winners. This is a great webinar to share with any school leader who wants to begin to harness the power of social media or is skeptical about how it can be effectively used to improve schools. educational leadership NASSP Social Media'

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Survey: Teens have doubled their social media use

eSchool News

Teenagers’ social media use has doubled in recent years, from 34 percent who reported using social media multiple times a day in 2012 to 70 percent reporting the same today, according to research from Common Sense.

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Culling Your Social Media Past

ProfHacker

One of the challenges, however, is that much of my social media is pretty wide open and easily accessible through a google search of my uncommon name. Have you considered or managed to delete parts or all of your social media posts? Recently, my colleague Kris Shaffer began an experiment in digital minimalism.

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New Research Explores Teens' Use of Social Media in 2018

techlearning

Common Sense today published a new research report, Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences. GoGuardian Announces Beacon, Self-Harm Prevention Tool for Schools ] Highlights include: Teens are on social media for much of the day. Social media distracts them from some important stuff.

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Social media for teachers

The Innovative Educator

Illustrated by Peter Grundy From Scholastic Instructor SOURCES: Social media PD: Project Tomorrow, “Speak Up 2011.” YouTube: NielsenWire, “August 2012, Top U.S. social media social media in education' Twitter: Semiocast. Online Video Sites.” Facebook: Yahoo!

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What New Research on Teens and Social Media Means for Teachers

techlearning

As teachers, we all have assumptions -- and likely some opinions -– about teenagers and social media. This week, Common Sense is releasing its latest research report, Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences , a deep dive into the social media habits of American teenagers.

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What New Research on Teens and Social Media Means for Teachers

Graphite Blog

As teachers, we all have assumptions -- and likely some opinions -– about teenagers and social media. This week, Common Sense is releasing its latest research report, Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences , a deep dive into the social media habits of American teenagers.