The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 31, 2017

Tomorrow (Thursday, June 1st) is our second of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Digital Literacy + Fake News," being held online ( and for free ) from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). We invite all library professionals, educators, students, and others to participate this event.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2017

Using our Digital Citizenship Curriculum? With a digital library of hundreds of books, this app focuses on learning about real life and nurturing imagination. This tool lets kids take a picture of an object, and then compare its length to a reference object, like a baseball. Build Curiosity in All Subjects.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 17, 2017

Using our Digital Citizenship Curriculum? With a digital library of hundreds of books, this app focuses on learning about real life and nurturing imagination. This tool lets kids take a picture of an object and then compare its length to a reference object, such as a baseball. Build Curiosity in All Subjects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

And then, not two days later, I heard Twitter has reclassified their app as a news purveyor rather than a social media device. No surprise news shows are littered with references to listener’s tweets and presidential candidates break stories via their Twitter stream. Library Spot. Apparently a lot of adults.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 24, 2019

The Social Media Search Engine. These include reference services and databases. There are also data based search engines, by now you may know that I am referring to Wolfram Alpha. Most of all, it can show students the power and educational benefits of social media. The Human Reviewed Search Engine.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

This is not necessarily something you might teach in a classroom, but it’s certainly something that’s relevant to every student and every teacher in our schools, and that’s social media. Social media is something students are going to explore on their own, no matter what. She’s author of the book Social LEADia.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

For those of us who remember a time before the internet, using Google for research might feel strange -- like being thrust from the cozy confines of a favorite library straight into the Wild West of the web. It’s still best to combine Googling with other forms of research, like visiting a library or using an academic database.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

For those of us who remember a time before the internet, using Google for research might feel strange -- like being thrust from the cozy confines of a favorite library straight into the Wild West of the web. It’s still best to combine Googling with other forms of research, like visiting a library or using an academic database.

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Google Social Media Digital Citizenship Examples 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

In short, by “disruption,” we are referring to something that causes the kind of impact that leads to change. I’ve listed some examples of disruption in education below, and ranked them (though obviously the ranking is entirely subjective and only useful as a crude reference point to start your own thinking).

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 9, 2018

The importance of media literacy cannot be understated. Nor can the value of social media as a teaching, learning, and publishing tool. Two principles inform why I engage with my students around social media: Digital literacy doesn’t just naturally develop any more than print literacy does, and.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

this CNN The Daily Show where Trevor Noah interviews Greta Thunberg: [link] and this screen shot from the interview, which is trending on Facebook: [link] Reference Stevens, V. I sometimes refer to the process as decolonizing education. We use media, art and technology on MY HERO to celebrate the best of humanity, one story at a time.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Partner Announcements Amazing People Institute : Amazing People Library launch a digital story collection unlike any other.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Mancenido (Undergraduate, Bachelor of Elementary Education - Special Education) 2:00am Connecting Education to the Cloud for Digital Citizenship - Chryssanthe Sotiriou, High School EFL Coordinator 3:00am Democratization: Stuctural Change of Regimen and of the Living Experience at Schools - Olek Netzer, Ph.D. Davis, Ph.D.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 8, 2015

It also provides immediate feedback—someone is definitely going to read and respond to the tweet, and teachers feel like they are part of something—a dialog that is much bigger and more powerful than a meeting in the school library. Digital Literacy. Digital Citizenship. How To Incentivize Participation.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

Has technology and social media been an impediment or impetus for civic activism? Part of the reason that we teach technology and digital citizenship is to model prosocial behaviors and explain the risks that occur when we don’t. Today’s students have social media and stay aware. Unequivocally yes.

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