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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

12] You could also send out a list of volunteer activities and school events (such as back to school night) so parents know they’re welcome in class. 5] You can then continue to send messages through text or social media groups, too. If you’d like to get more involved in school events, let them know how you’d like to help.

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Register Now for the Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Sponsored with ALA’s “Libraries Transform: The Expert in the Library” Campaign [link] and [link] this event will allow participants to interact with experts in the field to identify expectations and develop competency sets and best practices from the field, LIS education. This is a free event, being held online. and at the Library 2.0

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Library 2.017: EXPERTISE, COMPETENCIES, AND CAREERS

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This event is being organized in partnership with the American Library Association and will feature ALA president Julie Todaro as moderator for the opening panel and the closing keynote speaker. This is a free event, being held online. network to be kept updated on this and future events. Please also join this Library 2.0

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

The filters did sometimes keep students from seeing pornographic images, but far more often they kept students from playing online games, browsing social media, and using the internet for legitimate academic work. While many districts blocked YouTube and most blocked social media, only a handful blocked sex education websites.

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Mark Bauerlein on Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This is an incredible compilation of essays by significant thinkers-- ten of whom, including Mark, have been guests on the Future of Education show--on the "perils and promise of the social- media revolution," and frames the important discussions about the development of our digital culture back to 1996! Log in at [link].

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As with all of the other sessions in the Summit (300 in total for this two-month event!), In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. airing on Discovery in 2020.)

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

Edsurge

I was still telling a linear story about China, from physical geography to history to current events. 3) Current events flash quizzes —Boyer creates a video podcast about a particular current event issue, creates a “flash” quiz on material covered in the podcast, and announces the quiz using social media.

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