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These faculty members also may struggle to juggle the demands of the professorship with family commitments, raising children, service to practitioners, a growing social media presence, and innovation in realms that most postsecondary institutions fail to value. This second path would be me, of course.

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September 11th, 19 years later - Never Forget - join together in unity.

Educational Technology Guy

It is a day we honor and remember the thousands of lives lost, the survivors, and those who rose up in service in response to the attacks on 9-11-2001. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article. It is a day of remembrance, a day of reflection and a day to be proud.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

Perhaps reading posts on social media and clicking on article links in Google searches are useful types of reading too. Elsewhere around the world fourth graders had more negative attitudes about reading in 2016 than fourth graders did in 2001 in 13 out of 20 countries and jurisdictions.

Survey 141
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REINVENTING.SCHOOL - Episode 8 Today, "Home as a Place for Learning" #reinventingschool

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Farenga worked closely with one of the founders of the modern homeschooling movement, the late author and teacher John Holt, and published Growing Without Schooling magazine ( GWS ) from 1985 until it stopped in 2001. Social media: @organiccowboy. The Washington Post says, “Fine is a storyteller in the mold of Douglas Adams.”

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

Edsurge

I’ve enjoyed finding my students motivated to deliver information to an audience [by writing Wikipedia articles]. When Wikipedia was first came out and was first reviewed in 2001. In so many social-media camps, people just go to find a reaffirmation of what they believed before they logged on.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

If we limit the list of essential student affairs technology articles to those written by student affairs scholars or professionals, published in student affairs journals or books, or about student affairs then I’m hard pressed to name an article that I consider essential. Technology in U.S. higher education.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

There have been some good articles, books, and chapters that are important in particular, narrow contexts but I don’t think that I’ve seen anything essential or seminal. ” She touches on many different aspects of CMC and does so with a deep understanding of its history and social implications. Technology in U.S.