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Is it Time for a Social Media Awareness Class?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Christian Miraglia, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has some great ideas on teaching kids about Social Media Awareness: Over the last decade, there has been pressure in the K-12 learning environment to create classes that address everything from managing your money to various efforts to address cultural inequalities.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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4 Security Issues for Schools During Covid19 Distance Education

The CoolCatTeacher

Third, I talk about increasing awareness of social media manipulation by countries. Sponsor: See 10 Professional Development Courses to Improve Your Online Classroom which I shared recently on my blog. I read this article and this article and then share what this could mean for schools.

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AI: The Future of Classroom Efficiency with Mary Howard

The CoolCatTeacher

She is an actual classroom teacher and doesn't “do” hype, but I think she wants to help. Let me know what you think with a shout-out on social media @coolcatteacher or at vicki at coolcatteacher dot com. AIforEducators. I highly recommend this free AI course from Microsoft. So sign up today.

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Creating a Sense of Belonging with Virtual Worlds

ViewSonic Education

The metaverse, as a concept, focuses on the idea that virtual or digital worlds can replicate existing forms of social interaction or create new ones. Because of this idea, companies all over the world are investing in the metaverse either as a form of social media, eCommerce, and even an educational platform.

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We Wondered If NFTs Could Change Education, So We Decided to Sell This Article on the Blockchain

Edsurge

Specifically, we are going to auction off an image of this article—the first NFT ever sold by EdSurge. That’s pretty much the opposite of the way the internet and social media have traditionally treated information, which is to make it easy to make exact copies of something to spread to as many people as possible. “If

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Social Media

edWeb.net

The drawbacks of social media are well-documented—like anonymous trolls posting negative comments just to spark controversy. In addition to negative commentary, Knowles acknowledged other challenges to adopting social media for education. Finally, for some there is a social-emotional toll.