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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education to Acquire DreamBox Learning? 

eSchool News

Through its high-quality adaptive learning solutions independently proven to accelerate student growth, DreamBox Learning empowers educators with data analytics and content-specific professional development solutions to complement instruction. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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Since its start in 2006 by a former teacher, it’s grown to over 3.4 Buzzwords like “shout out”, “ecosystem”, “safe space”, “self-publishing”, “data analysis” were part of every conversation. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word.

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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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Livestreaming and Podcasting in the Classroom

edWeb.net

What social media do you use regularly for communicating with your students and parents? Many platforms let you promote events via several social media channels, but some are meant for a specific channel. For instance, TwitCasting lets users stream video while commenting via Twitter. Join the Community.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. He cited Jon Udell ‘s vision of Wikipedia as a place where knowledge is socially constructed. Data and ownership of one’s web space, being wary of silos, should be discussed now. On March 30 we had Jim Groom as our Future Trends Forum guest.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. He cited Jon Udell ‘s vision of Wikipedia as a place where knowledge is socially constructed. Data and ownership of one’s web space, being wary of silos, should be discussed now. On March 30 we had Jim Groom as our Future Trends Forum guest.

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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism in a World of Echo Chambers

Educator Innovator

In other words, on social media, we often “flock together” or connect with like-minded individuals and those who are similar to us in other important ways. We forge or solidify friendships on Facebook and follow people on Twitter according to our existing bonds and shared interests.