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Teaching Using News Articles: Helpful Tips and Resources for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Unfortunately, a sizable portion of online news stories, especially those circulating on social media sites are fake news, false information, disinformation, misinformation, or downright propaganda. Teaching using news articles: Ideas and tips for teachers There are various ways to teach with news.

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From Banning to Embracing Social Media: #GovTechLive Names #NYCSchoolsTech Facebook Group & Twitter Chat Best in NYC

The Innovative Educator

Visit the article her e. The New York City Department of Education has come a long way since 2012 when I took a risk and criticized the city's conservative approach to social media. It wasn't long after that I was brought on to help New York City schools embrace social media for teaching and learning.

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Metaverse Education: What’s Next for Virtual Learning?

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Most commonly, it’s associated with virtual reality (VR) technology, augmented reality (AR) technology, social media-like features, blockchain technology , and the use of controllable avatars. ’ The company saw the metaverse as the future of online social interactions and as the evolution of existing social media.

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5 Benefits of Technology in the Classroom

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Outside the classroom, students love to share their experiences on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. The second is that it encourages teamwork, a useful skill for the future, which is the subject of the last point of this article. One is that the collaboration can be tracked (i.e.,

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Schools and Communities Together

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Libraries : Reville and Weiss observed that libraries can also be mobilized to help support summer learning through activities like book clubs that mail books to students or organizing community “storywalks” in local parks.

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How to Start a High School Esports Team & Benefit Your School

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This article will give you a step-by-step guide on starting a high school esports team and takes a look at how having a team will benefit your school and its students. This includes creating tools like text groups, email lists, and social media sites. Facebook High School esports. Chicago Tribune Article: [link].

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Personalize Your School Library Program with these Convenient, Creative Apps

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Apps bring technology, functionality, and creativity into your school library program. In “ Virtual Library Program Development ,” Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, New Canaan High School, CT, reviewed an A to Z list of 50 apps to virtualize your school library program. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.