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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

Hapara

Digital citizenship refers to being a responsible member of the global digital community. Also, many families do have mobile phones with online access, so giving learners tools that are mobile-friendly will support equitable access to instruction. That’s why teaching digital citizenship has to be part of our roles as educators.

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How to Engage in Using Social Media as a School Leader

The 21st Century Principal

Just as Williamson and Johnston suggest, the time has come for school leaders to stop trying to find ways to block and ban social media and embrace it as both an educational tool and a fact of life. Howard Johnston’s book, The School Leader’s Guide to Social Media can help. As authors Ronald Williamson and J.

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VR & AR in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

He has become a leading guru of virtual environments, learning with mobile devices, social media, and digital textbooks. He has monitored the work of thousands of students through his long-term leadership of the California state student media festival, the nation’s oldest.He

Classroom 272
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Psychology's Crucial Role in Tech's Evolution

Mark Smithers

Social media platforms should be held accountable for design choices and preventing online harassment to promote better mental health. Social media can exacerbate the mental health crisis, especially among adolescents, whose vulnerable brains are susceptible to its effects.

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5 ways peer networks lead to better student support systems

eSchool News

Students often turned to social media–and, by default, used their own social capital–to learn about emergency aid, support networks, and available resources. Social capital refers to “access to, and ability to mobilize, relationships that help further an individual’s potential and goals.

System 73
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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

Edsurge

Bourdieu studied ways power is transferred and maintained across generations, claiming that your college marks you, reproducing the class status you inherit from your family, with your social position frozen. For online students, the jury is out on which theory forecasts their future.

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Boosting Digital Literacies for a Purpose

Digital Promise

These skills include the ability to navigate, interpret information, generate information, and communicate online and through mobile devices. Tech Team members learn to navigate livestreams on social media such as FaithLife , for example. Re-design Literacies.