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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

Communicate with parents through tech: Use digital resources (like apps, texts, or social media groups) to keep parents informed about class activities and upcoming assignments.[10]. The good news is this doesn’t mean teachers need to be intimately familiar with every new form of tech or social media platform. Adobe Blog.

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The Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education name grand prize winner of Operation Prevention Video Challenge

techlearning

Winning public service announcements will be featured across DE and DEA digital and social media platforms. About the DEA Educational Foundation Established in 2001, the DEA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preventing drug abuse.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

There has been an explosion of research in this area in the last decade especially concentrated on youths’ use of social media e.g., Facebook, MySpace. Eszter Hargittai at Northwestern University has done quite a bit of work in the area of Internet use and social inequality; her 2010 article “ Digital Na(t)ives?

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

There has been an explosion of research in this area in the last decade especially concentrated on youths’ use of social media e.g., Facebook, MySpace. Youths’ use of CMC : Although the majority of students enrolled in U.S. Student Affairs'

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Teaching Geopolitics: Fantasy Football as a Learning Game

MindShift

The students had come of age in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which shocked most Americans’ geopolitical sensibilities awake. Without Nelson’s urging or even his knowledge, students created a Facebook page that synthesized the international news they were following.

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For educators, a charge on this Veterans Day

Bryan Alexander

It should be obvious, given that the United States has been fighting a series of wars at a planetary scale since September 2001. But how often do we read of those schools in the Chronicle, or hear them discussed at conferences, or see them referenced in the academic social media realm? Bravo to them!

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. Connectivist Learning: Reaching Students through Teacher Professional Development. In Son, J.-B.