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

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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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Understanding The Deep Fake: A Troubling Trend

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Wesley Fryer on episode 572 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Deep fake videos are now possible. Wesley has served as an organizer for the annual K-12 Online Conference since it began in 2006.

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Our mutual friends

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How it can be applied in education Social ties are crucially important in the digital age, for as Henry Jenkins argues, it''s the dynamic and participatory elements of reaffirming a group''s social ties that helps us to acquire our collective knowledge (Jenkins, 2006, p. 2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.