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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

Edsurge

It deftly, artfully captures just how inundated children — specifically, three girls over the course of one year — are these days, thanks to social media and all the other byproducts of carrying a small computer in your pocket everywhere you go. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004. See what they did there?

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Teachers’ essential guide to cyberbullying prevention

eSchool News

Reported data on how many kids experience cyberbullying can vary depending on the age of kids surveyed and how cyberbullying is defined. 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.

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Weekend Reading: Pollen Edition

ProfHacker

" " Palantir Knows Everything About You ," by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson ( Bloomberg ): "Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whose digital utopia does ‘openness’ represent?"

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What Do You Mean I Can't Twitter?

The Web20Classroom

The post deals with a ban of social media during the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Society Cell Biology. This policy is necessary to respect the willingness of presenters to share their data at the meeting as well as their publication opportunities." Meaning it would be wrong to broadcast data that was unpublished.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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What we don't know

Learning with 'e's

That is why it is so important for all of us to share what we know and share it freely on social media. As I have previously opined, knowledge is also continuously changing, sometimes on a daily basis as scientific breakthroughs and new data bring fresh insights. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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

Edsurge

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence.

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