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Dear ISTE (reprised)

NeverEndingSearch

Librarians Network on Facebook. We’ve leveraged social media to connect themselves and their learning communities, often globally. These standards and profiles can be used for: Self-assessment and personal professional growth plans. link] (2003). ISTELIB on Twitter. Librarians Network Website. link] (2004).

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How To Make A Civics Education Stick

MindShift

On the civics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly called the “Nation’s Report Card,” students of color and low-income students have consistently scored lower than their white, wealthier counterparts. You can unfriend someone on Facebook or mute specific phrases on Twitter.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

Professional journalists themselves face new practical and ethical challenges relating to anonymity, privacy and safety, as well as reliability in their attempts to verify sources of breaking news from social media and user generated content in all media formats. (The On news literacy. Not as a lesson of good vs. bad.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. A sobering assessment and a warning.”