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What Does the Popularity of Pokémon Go Mean for K-12 Gaming? A Q-and-A With James Gee

Marketplace K-12

He has written several books on the role of games and learning, including What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) and Language and Learning (2004). Gee spoke with Education Week via telephone recently, sharing his thoughts on the latest big trend in online gaming: Pokémon Go. Yes, to some extent.

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Your classroom does not have to be Pinterest-worthy: Stay reflective on the WHY & avoid comparison

The Cornerstone for Teachers

3 types of thoughts that run through my mind when I see a really awesome idea on social media. The question that I want to answer today is not, “How can we stop other teachers from creating beautiful learning spaces and sharing them on social media?’ I “should” have thought of it myself. It seems so obvious.

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Dear ISTE (reprised)

NeverEndingSearch

In Trends Aside, Libraries Support Student Content Creation Now , SLJ’s Matt Collette described librarians have long been addressing the Report’s identified challenges. We’ve leveraged social media to connect themselves and their learning communities, often globally. link] (2003). @ISTELIB on Twitter.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Handouts, infographics, and posters Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education (by the Center for Social Media): An indispensable guide for educators trying to wrap their minds around fair use in the classroom. You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever.

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Nearly 60% of Teens Use Their Own Mobile Devices in School for Learning

The Innovative Educator

When it came to particular types of devices, students see the smartphone as the ideal device for communicating with teachers (46 percent) and classmates (72 percent) and for social media (64 percent). Reflecting a long-standing trend, this year’s data results reconfirm that a gender bias exists in STEM interest.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. ” They always are. Hype as Wishful Thinking.

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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. ” Still more student loan news in the legal section above.