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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2008), a study involving 735 workers was conducted to examine autonomy's impact on overall morale. A study using a large email survey of managers found overwhelming support for having fun in the workplace. Provide autonomy Micro-managing never ends well. & Ryan, R. Newstrom, J.W.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

Children face increasingly packed schedules, so they’re more likely to multitask—by frequently task-switching and/or using different kinds of media at the same time. 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].

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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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#CoronaVirus, class closures and communication

Learning with 'e's

I earned my first degree in psychology largely by studying at a distance - at the British Open University. One meta-study database (established in 2004) shows that online learning (when done effectively) is at least as effective, if not more effective than traditional courses.

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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.

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Epic Effective Classroom Decoration and Design Resources

The CoolCatTeacher

[link] [PDF] High Performance Learning Spaces – a paper shared by Stanford University in 2004 about their research into creating spaces where high performance learning happens. Build your Personal Learning Network (PLN) by adding these experts and resources to your social media accounts. Build Your Classroom Design PLN.

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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.