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What Educators Need to Know Right Now About Digital Citizenship

The CoolCatTeacher

Anne Collier on Episode 456 and 457 of the 10-Minute Teacher Anne Collier, Founder and Executive Director of The Net Safety Collaborative and SocialMediaHelpline.com , shares what we need to know about social media in this two-part series. NetRef offers powerful Internet monitoring software that I recommend for schools.

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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

Edsurge

Shares did rise nearly 3 percent in early trading, giving the software provider a valuation of about $3.6 PowerSchool’s journey has gone like this: It was founded in 1997, back in the early days of the web and before smartphones, tablets or social media even existed. Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006.

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with 'e's

Indeed, my top three all-time cited academic publications are: Wikis, blogs and podcasts : A new generation of web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education (2006) The emerging Web 2.0 The rest, as they say, is history.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. 2006) Introducing Web 2.0:

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Launching SchoolLibraryNJ (and some models beyond)

NeverEndingSearch

We’ve seen evidence of this in the many curated digital collections shared across social media, including all of those lovely Bitmoji libraries. 2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” During the pandemic we’ve seen value in the efforts of so many librarians whose online presence bridges their school communities.

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Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

The Hechinger Report

He’s held a teaching credential in the state since 2006, based on passing the state’s biological sciences and geosciences teaching exams, state records show. Throughout the pandemic, the American public has struggled to be scientifically literate enough to separate well-grounded scientific findings from social media-driven fiction.

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Opening up #learning: Access to knowledge

Learning with 'e's

Soon there were open colleges, and open learning centres, and then open software appeared - software that could be shared and developed by anyone. The advent of the Web, and subsequently the rise in use of social media and media sharing services has amplified this capability. Reference Putnam, R.