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Empatico: A Breakthrough Way to Promote Empathy (And It’s Free)

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Empatico is a free platform, targeted to students aged 7-11, that helps classrooms connect in powerful ways. A comparison of majority-race children with and without a minority-race friend. See Lease, A. M., & Blake, J. Social Development,14 (1), 20-41.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Communicating with Generation X, Y, and Z Parents

Waterford

In fact, 68% of all Millennials report they text “a lot” every day, in comparison to 47% of Gen Xers.[9] 2] Consider putting together a Facebook group or Twitter page for your parents to join or follow. Journal of Instructional Psychology, March 2005, 32(1), pp. Communicating with Generation Z Parents. Machen, S.M., Wilson, J.D.,

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How Classroom Political Discussions — Controversies, Too — Prepare Students for Needed Civic Participation

MindShift

Follow her on Twitter @hkorbey. . Excerpted from Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All by Holly Korbey. . A Twenty-first Century Guide to Politics in the Classroom . But Wunn wants to make debate even more inclusive. She is a regular contributor on education for Edutopia and MindShift.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

DeVos herself sat on the Board of Directors of the Acton Institute from 1995 to 2005, an organization that recently blogged about repealing child labor laws. ’” Facebook board member Marc Andreessen lashed out on Twitter, arguing that the decision meant that Indian telcos simply wanted to keep poor people off the Internet.