Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

2, 2018 – Today’s modern media center design reflects a laboratory of learning, typically including areas for action centers, makerspace, research and design labs and video conferencing. Registrants receive a recording of the presentation along with research and resource materials. For more information, go to [link].

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Even with tight budgets, it’s possible to repurpose your libraries or media centers into 21st century makerspaces. With that in mind, we recently re-introduced our media centers to our district community, Brevard County Schools in Florida, as a valuable and integral part of a student’s education that supports 21st-century skills.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2021

As we begin the new school year, students need to be at the center of learning and actively engaged in thinking, making, doing, discussing, and reflecting. Teach students to use their devices to capture visual media documenting their learning. Students: can incorporate media to bring their work to life.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 24, 2023

So, I will have one presentation this year, and besides that, my producer (and son), John, has come with me to document the learning and thoughts to share on my podcast/ YouTube channel/ social media and — as always — here on my blog. I’ll take you with me, so follow me on my social media. What if I’m not going?

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2023

I shared the following on social media recently: Entry points for change are crucial. For example, a study by the Pew Research Center found that students who used laptops in the classroom were more likely to say that they were engaged in their schoolwork and that they felt like they were learning more.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

While some look to technology regulations to combat the scourge of fake news, the strongest defense may well be in building a citizenry with strong media literacy skills.[2] 2] Read on to learn how we got here, why it matters, and how teachers can build media literacy in the classroom. The Benefits of Media Literacy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2024

Having access to the skills needed to decode text and other media impacts our students now and forever. While reading out loud and building a love of literacy is still a foundational part of their job in a school, school librarians in the school media center wear many, many hats and touch many lives in the course of a day’s work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2023

Student-centered approach: Shifting the focus from the teacher as the primary source of knowledge to fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration in students. Digital and media literacy: Teaching how to evaluate information and navigate the digital landscape responsibly.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

can backfire because children and teens are naturally curious and will try some things on their own, such as signing up for social media accounts way below the minimum age requirement. Media literacy is about finding positive examples of trustworthy, well-written, and well-documented news. This method of “Beware!

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Carolyn Foote on episode 578 of the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Many schools are reimagining the learning spaces that some call libraries or media centers. As you plan your school’s strategy, you’ll want to have conversations about this show.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

This twist on the station rotation model combines the strategic collection and use of data with student agency to create a more personalized and student-centered approach to this blended learning model. So, teachers who love the station rotation model may want to experiment with a fun variation of the traditional design of a rotation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2023

AI is at the center of Intellectual property debates everywhere. I started with QuickDraw, which recognizes doodling along with the curriculum from the MIT Media Lab on AI ethics. These could then be embedded in social media platforms to help us distinguish the real from the fake when it comes to new connections’ faces.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2023

” One more person who’s security conscious is that poster-boy for social media: Mark Zuckerberg. Webcams and mics are too easy to hack, been done often. Why risk it? When I want to use the webcam (which isn’t that often), I take the post-it off. I’m not the only one. I think that’s a good thing.”

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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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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

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. In some ways, it can be helpful to think of the metaverse in relation to social media. For this reason, the metaverse can also be understood as something akin to gaming.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It can be channeled through social media posts, while gaming, through direct messages, and much more.[2]. Bullying that centers on things like race, national origin, immigration status, sexuality or gender identity, and more could all be classified as hate speech. Freedom of Speech in Schools, Hate Speech, and Bullying.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

“Kids have a hard time understanding there is someone on the other end of a computer,” says Laurie Salvail, a curriculum development specialist with the National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC), a division of the Cyber Innovation Center in Louisiana. We don’t take an anti-tech approach to this,” Mendoza says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2022

Much attention has been paid to the potential role of social media in that crisis. The research that we do have is inadequate in terms of helping us understand the ways in which the internet and social media affect youth well-being.” If we change kids’ social media use, will that change their mental health?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

3 Provide Alternative Forms of Media for Students to Choose From Some students may find it challenging to acquire information in the form of a video. Wrap Up The flipped classroom model promises to shift the transfer of information online and use class time to promote active, student-centered learning.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Then, discover five ways to boost student-centered learning through blended or hybrid learning. Both methods, while somewhat different in their approach, include student-centered learning in some capacity. Student-centered learning is here defined as curriculum and assignments that focus on a student’s unique needs and goals.[13]

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

STEAM education is trending at an opportune time: The COVID-19 pandemic caused learning loss across the board, and a STEAM-centered curriculum that engages students while weaving important 21st-century education principles into real-world lessons is critical for success. And these are just a few STEM and STEAM education examples.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States. Before school libraries would begin to morph into multimedia digital information centers, they supported student literacy-building practices by providing access to their on-site book collections.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

led by Remake Learning in cooperation with national partners Digital Promise, PBS Kids for Parents, Common Sense Media, Learning Heroes, and Noggin. This awareness has also been critical in helping to galvanize communities as advocates for more youth-centered, powerful learning both in and out of school. Resources to learn more.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2023

I think of social media as sugar,” she says. People these days are streaming other mundane daily activities live on social media, whether it’s cleaning their room or doing their professional work. When she’s not in student mode, she works at her university as a program coordinator for its Center for Multicultural Initiatives.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) graph of daily COVID cases in the U.S. Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Four big thoughts on all of this… 1. Note the huge spike in January 2022 due to the Omicron variant. It’s significantly above that. ”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. The school system has 13,000 students enrolled throughout the city and approximately 2,100 staff members working each day. All PPS educators also have access to the Discovery Education Network. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2024

Ninety-two percent check social media daily. But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When it comes to reading for pleasure, students have so many other competing interests available to them – movies, games, social media, and TV shows – that we need to aim to make it an attractive, conscious choice. Every child deserves a library. Let’s make it happen. How do you modernize a school library? A virtual reality field trip.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2020

I’m finding a lot of great micro-credentials centered around digital learning with resources that I can apply now and in the future. I’m finding a lot of great micro-credentials centered around digital learning with resources that I can apply now and in the future.”. Jessica Besler Kindergarten Teacher, Lakeview Elementary School.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2023

Kareem Edouard has been doing research for years on how to make children’s media more inclusive. Edouard is no stranger to making media. EdSurge sat down with Edouard to talk about how his research informs his new animated TV show and how he thinks the media industry needs to change to help draw more Black students into STEM fields.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

Charlotte, NC – Discovery Education, in partnership with Norton, a leading Cyber Safety brand of Gen , recently launched a new digital citizenship resource center – My Digital Life – on the award-winning Discovery Education K-12 platform. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

However, most of our current civic education practices fail to prepare students for a world where civil discourse begins the moment you have access to a smartphone and social media. Students also need education in media literacy. In what ways do news and social media amplify the spread of misinformation?

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

PBS Learning Media videos PBS Learning has a video series for middle school and high school students called “Above the Noise.” Whether learners question rules related to internet usage or need support in how to use social media safely, opening a dialogue is one of the best ways to approach digital citizenship topics.

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