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What Schools Can Learn About Communication From the Vatican’s Former Social Media Chief

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In 2017, Monsignor Paul Tighe may have been the only priest amidst a sea of techies at South by Southwest (SXSW), where he spoke about his past experience serving as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications for the Catholic Church. Think “social media director” for the Catholic Church.) I was lucky.

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

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CIPA also requires schools to monitor student online activity and provide training for responsible technology use. Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages.

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I love the #DEN

Kathy Schrock

The use of social media is commonplace for educators nowadays. I interact daily with teachers on Twitter, which is my social network of choice. Hashtags on Twitter help educators participating in Twitter chats, or interested in a particular topic, to hone their PLN. A little history.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

These experiences come from a wide variety of interests including school education, higher education, workplace learning, consulting, lifelong learning, training, and community education. Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 Education 1.0 can be compared to Web 1.0 Keats and J. Education 1.0

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Free Lesson Plans and Other Resources to Prevent Cyberbullying and Promote Online Safety

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One in three young people have experienced online threats, a rate that has nearly doubled from 2007 to 2016. We are also giving away free lesson plans about online safety topics and holding a Twitter contest to give educators a chance to win a #BeKindOnline shirt. In 2015 alone, the Center for Disease Control reported that 15.5%

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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. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. and Wheeler, S (2007) The emerging Web 2.0 The web is constantly changing.

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Why Teacher Recruitment Needs to Change

Insight Education Group

In Utah, Governor Gary Herbert addressed his state’s teacher shortage recently with the following plea to his fellow residents via Twitter: "Consider becoming a teacher; it is a noble profession.". Only half the people who graduate from teacher prep programs actually take jobs as new teachers in any given year.