eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Through our acquisition of Pivot Interactives, Discovery Education is now better positioned to broaden our impact by providing our partner school systems access to phenomena-based, active learning tools.”. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com. .

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 13, 2010

Image from Rheingold.com ) Howard Rheingold is the author of Tools for Thought , The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs. His current projects include the Social Media Classroom , The Cooperation Project , Participatory Media Literacy , HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation grantee , and the 21st Century Literacies videos.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’ve seen evidence of this in the many curated digital collections shared across social media, including all of those lovely Bitmoji libraries. High School Crediting Sources Administrators Research Tools Librarians Book Awards & Lists Elementary Home Middle School Newsroom. 2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today on the podcast we’re talking about news literacy, and the challenge of teaching students to navigate the relentless flow of information they get through social media and websites and YouTube and. Really with the advent of the first iPhone, around 2006, everything changed, and social media really took off.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Started in 2006, it aims to educate and raise awareness of bullying prevention around the world and is supported by hundreds of schools, corporations, and celebrities. It includes not only websites, but cell phones, Nintendo, and Wii, as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

Winner of the ISTE Online Learning Award 2006 and Best Talk Show Host in Education 2014 and many Best Teacher Blog awards, Vicki seeks to shine a spotlight on what works in education wherever it happens in the world. Host: Vicki Davis. Vicki Davis @ coolcatteacher is a full-time classroom teacher in Camilla, Georgia.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. 9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. xii cited in Gay, p.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

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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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 16, 2016

A key feature of social media is its open architecture, because it allows all members of a community to easily modify, extend or delete content. Wikis for example, can subvert traditional values such as personal ownership and intellectual property (Richardson, 2006) but community ownership of the content becomes an equalising factor.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 14, 2017

When I learned that EdTechTeam was educating teachers to harness the power of tools that most of us already have access to, I started to get more interested. I learned that it is possible to become a Certified Google Educator and thought, “I love to use Google tools for Education.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2018

She’s the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor , which The New York Times called “ riveting ” and noted that that’s an unusual accomplishment for a book about policy and tech. For well-off people, it's a time of convenience and ease thanks to social media and algorithms.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 31, 2015

I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of social media such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. I then wrote and published a flurry of papers on social media and education, and around the same time I set up this blog.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Salman Khan should feel honored.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 18, 2012

Lankshear and Knobel (2006) argued for the 'embeddedness' of literacy within wider social practices. Literacies of this kind are acquired as the learner engages with the culture, mediated through the tools. You learn through social engagement online for example, that typing words in UPPERCASE represents shouting.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006 while waiting on a very late bus to pick up my first graders, my principal stopped by my room to tell me about this new website she had heard about from some admin colleagues. How many times had I told her that before as she brought me some new tool to use. I shared projects on every social media platform I could.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Research shows that including a variety of stakeholders—from parents to students to school teachers and staff—in the design and implementation of a school change is critical to its success (Mitra&Gross, 2009; Osberg, Pope, &Galloway, 2006; Rice, 2011).Will For tweens and teens it can also include some time spent on social media.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Learning in the industrialised world can now be contextualised within a largely technological landscape, where the use of digital media is assuming increasing importance. Clearly our social and cultural worlds are influenced by new technology, but are there also biological implications? References Cross, J. London: John Wiley and Sons.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 1, 2013

Findings are based on a National study of building principals using social media as a means to enhance professional learning, organizational change and innovative teaching and learning practices. Eric has emerged as an innovative leader in the use of social media and web 2.0

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 3, 2012

Now, before we start I gotta add that this is by NO MEANS a checklist of 8 social media things you have to do ! No social media guilt from me or my blog dear friend! YouTube has grown SO much since I joined in 2006 - now I have a full fledged channel ! All my humble opinion, of course!

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 23, 2012

They first connected in the K12 Online Conference in 2006. It''s full of stories, tips, tricks, tools, and methodology. Don Tapscott talks about customization of digital tools which leads to customization of learning environments. They have to be hands on; can''t sit back and just let the students use the tools.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). Use open and free tools, then share out what you do.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). Use open and free tools, then share out what you do.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

Common Sense Media has a list of climate change-related movies for all ages. The 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth and its 2017 sequel, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power have curricular materials created in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation. Check out the #trashtag challenge on social media, for example.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

PLUS we'll immediately send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 10 websites, 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries. See you online! Steve Hargadon Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. YouTube channel.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

“So far, many students have collaboratively written, researched, created video, and even built virtual worlds, but now it is time to engineer together,” says Vicki Davis, author of the award winning Cool Cat Teacher Blog and an original founder of the Flat Classroom Project, winner of the ISTE 2006 Online Learning Award. 404-913-2737.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Similarly, before the crisis all of the presenters were working with their boards and communities to show them edtech in a positive light and help them understand the importance of using tools in school that students will use in college and the workforce. About the Host.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ann served as co-chair of Texas Education Technology Advisory Committee which developed the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

So many of these tools are new to me. 36 Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life. It is a simple and powerful tool any teacher can use. At the bottom of this post, we’re giving away a sample including 5 tools just for the readers of this blog. These tools are not in any particular order.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In the digital age, this also means being proficient in using online tools for collaboration, such as cloud-based document sharing, video conferencing , and collaborative project management software. This involves understanding the ethical implications of actions, especially when using digital tools and platforms. link] Lin Y.C.,&

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 12, 2016

It’s almost impossible to write a book about productivity without considering the attention disaster that is social media. ” A huge part of the problem is that he almost exclusively imagines social media as a one-to-many platform, rather than as a conversation, or in any other way.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Her dream long ago was to create an online place for educators that was safe and secure with all the tools and resources in one place. Barbara continues to find and research new tools and methods that help educators create learner-centered environments and how any person no matter what age can find their purpose and develop agency.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

You’ll find that today’s social media is doubling down in the storytelling space. With this in mind, I think it is absolutely critical for us to help our students develop technology and media literacies in multimedia creation even if “learning to use Snapchat to harness your passion” is not yet a course at your school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Later that night, after exhausting her frustration on an exercise bike, Grant replayed two videos she had created to put on the school district’s social media pages. The federal government, given the limited tools at its disposal, did the right thing” to send so much relief money, said Stadler, of the Education Trust.

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