Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. That’s newspapers, evening news, and anything considered ‘mainstream media’ They prefer blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. So why do students turn to it for news?

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

You can tag notable authors, artists, scientists, and other important figures who have inspired your students in your posts. According to a Pew Research Center study , 30 percent of Facebook users go to the site as their primary source of news. Consider going to Twitter or Instagram to highlight students’ work.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Are computers teachers? Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Arizona lags behind in schools' internet access, but change is coming | Tucson.com → “Urban Arizona keeps progressing and keeps getting access to better technology,” he said. Pretty much everything that is NOT covered by the edtech trade press.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

More via a Department of Ed blog post on what it’s doing to support these students. The price-tag for this particular version of “lifelong learning” is $29.99 “ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Pledges $3 Billion for Science Research,” Philanthropy.com reports. Heckuva job. More hype via Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing Coursera for Governments & Nonprofits.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. ” That price tag on a weeklong class at Singularity University. ” Via the Pew Research Center : “Americans and Cybersecurity.”

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