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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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Teachers’ essential guide to cyberbullying prevention

eSchool News

According to the 2018 Common Sense report Social Media, Social Life , 13 percent of teens age 13-17 say they’ve been cyberbullied, including 9 percent who say it has happened to them more than twice. Related: How our district uses tech to fight cyberbullying.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. Birds of a Feather Smart Sparrow traces its origins to 2004, to the University of New South Wales in Australia, where Ben-Naim, then a Ph.D. million in 2018.

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Schools struggle to help students return to class after a mental health crisis

The Hechinger Report

The BRYT program, which was founded and pioneered in two Boston schools in 2004 by the nonprofit Brookline Center for Community Health, has emerged as a successful model for helping kids re-enter school after a mental health crisis. Social media helped exacerbate emotional problems for Tashin, 17, a junior at Rindge & Latin.

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Lisa Johnston Named Content Director Of TWICE

techlearning

Johnston first joined TWICE as a copy editor in 2004. Johnston is taking on a role previously held by John Laposky, longtime editorial cornerstone of TWICE, who died on April 11, 2018, due to a sudden illness. NewBay was recently acquired by Future plc.

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Announcing October 21st Mini-Conference: "Libraries as Community Anchors"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their social media posts about the event. Each three-hour event consists of a keynote panel, 10-15 crowd-sourced thirty-minute presentations, and a closing keynote. Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Ph.D.,

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"Libraries as Community Anchors" Mini-Conference - Registrations and Call for Proposals Open

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #librariesascommunityanchors on their social media posts about the event. Each three-hour event consists of a keynote panel, 10-15 crowd-sourced thirty-minute presentations, and a closing keynote. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The call for proposals is now open.