Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I cannot check Twitter, Facebook or a Google+ Community, so I seek different forms of cognitive engagement, such as connecting with my family more and attending to the immediate experiences in front of me. The opportunities provided through social media are not only couched in learning. Living and learning with new media.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 13, 2019

A 2008 Ball State University study found that 43% of teachers said they slept an average of 6 hours or less per night. Social media addiction can also be associated with anxiety, depression, loneliness, and ADHD. Our summertime is an excellent time to break that social media addiction if you think you might have one.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a well-respected writer on both the NCTM Focal Points and Common Core State Standards, Fennell served as President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) from 2006–2008 and was a founding member of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. ABOUT hand2mind. At hand2mind, we believe children learn best by doing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2018

A 2008 Ball State University study found that 43% of teachers said they slept an average of 6 hours or less per night. Social media addiction can also be associated with anxiety, depression, loneliness, and ADHD. Our summertime is an excellent time to break that social media addiction if you think you might have one.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

We've been using their Week in Rap news feature in our school since they landed on the hip hop education or #HipHopEd scene in 2008! I don't use Facebook - we just never got along and I never warmed up to Snapchat. But it's not about what kind of social media or App you use but HOW you use it! Not familiar with them?

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 4, 2019

It started with reports of someone or something luring students via social media accounts on Facebook and WhatsApp to do harm to themselves and others under threat of public humiliation and physical intimidation. Alex Podchaski, a Certified Education Technology Leader, has been Oak Knoll’s Chief Technology Officer since 2008.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 31, 2019

Most of us are connected to each other through numerous social media platforms. Global social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter support various forms of communication and sharing actions that were previously unavailable. 2008) Tribes. 2002) Smartmobs: The Next Social Revolution. Rheingold, H.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 5, 2015

Today's #ThrowbackThursday brings us to a post I wrote about the importance of incorporating social media and student devices into learning even if it is blocked or banned in schools. Today, social media is embraced by districts such as New York City and this week the long-standing ban on cell phones has been lifted.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Educators Under a Social Media Microscope Courtesy of morguefile.com Social media and its uses are fascinating to me, and as a result I often read stories of how educators making controversial choices in their use of social media put their jobs in jeopardy. It''s extremely simple.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 29, 2013

Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Social media, the most social of all modern technologies, provided us with shared virtual spaces where we could ''meet''. Many of our digital tribal activities are performed on an informal basis.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In fact, in 2008, the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division began to recruit volunteers to improve the findability of thousands of photographs using its Flickr Commons to identify people, places and additional data. NARA’s Mary King recently announced a new social media project.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

More personalized means more surveilled — we know this from Facebook and Amazon, don't we. And as you surely know, TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. This is particularly evident on a cursory inspection of any social web space, whether it be Facebook, Snapchat or any other popular free space. Continues tomorrow. Yeomans, P.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

users moved from just accessing information and content to being able to directly interact with the content through commenting, remixing, and sharing it via social networks. also saw the development of social media which permits users to communicate directly with one another synchronously and asynchronously. 2008, March 8).

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Connecting 2 the World

MARCH 22, 2014

I can keep up with their work peripherally through the web , facebook, and linkedin. In a recent chapter I wrote about mobile technology, researchers (Ladner, 2008; Julsrud & Bakke, 2009) found that there is a blurring of the lines between work and home life. So how are things different, 14 years later? Campbell (Eds.),

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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. Retrieved 14 April, 2008 from: [link] Kamel Boulos, M. Yesterday's post can be found at this link. The web is constantly changing. Maramba, I.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 7, 2017

In one of my favorite experiments, a group of Vanderbilt University researchers in 2008 published a study in which several dozen 4- and 5-year-olds were shown patterns of colored bugs and asked to predict which would be next in the sequence. Not because I pay them or I compelled them to do so, but because they want to help.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 28, 2012

Digital Futures: Innovations in Mobile Learning View more PowerPoint from Steve Wheeler There is no denying that at its heart much good learning has a social component. Earlier today in a meeting with one of our training staff, I argued that e-learning needs a social learning element. David Crystal (2008) says it doesn't.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Some are reversing declines that date to the economic downturn of 2008. Gasman also pointed to a Facebook group, “ The HBCU vs PWI [ predominantly white institution ] Great Debate ,” where students and parents have expressed similar feelings. Alversia Wade, Spelman College freshman.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

First, I included danah boyd’s new book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens now that (a) I have read it and (b) it’s available for purchase and download (for free!). It covers many of the topics mentioned in this list and the introduction alone is a good summary of many of these issues.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There has been an explosion of research in this area in the last decade especially concentrated on youths’ use of social media e.g., Facebook, MySpace. Youths’ use of CMC : Although the majority of students enrolled in U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2015

In the fall of 2008, Eric Nelson found himself teaching there. Without Nelson’s urging or even his knowledge, students created a Facebook page that synthesized the international news they were following. They were having these conversations on social media that I wanted to have in my classroom.” He was miserable.

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Common Core State Standards ) We''ve been using their Week in Rap news feature in our MHTV school TV studio since they landed on the hip hop education scene in 2008 ! So, when I heard that they were teaming up with the awesome Common Sense Media people, to put out a music video about Digital Citizenship, - I was SO excited! Brilliant!

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

For the most part, many of us don’t have bandwidth to be checking one more space on social media; and from conversations happening on Mastodon among people I know so far, it doesn’t look like people are looking to migrate their networks from Twitter wholesale just yet. You can mark content as “sensitive”.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2017

Helping Parents Guide Kids' Media Use SXSWedu 2017 Panel tinyurl.com/ParentsGuidetoKidsMedia What makes for effective parent engagement around media and technology? Parents and caregivers are looking to schools for advice on their kids' media use. Got lots of questions about filtering and social media.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2015

I posed this question on Twitter and Facebook, and received many thoughts, some of which echoed my own: Students are too anxious about injuring their reputations, especially in the age of ubiquitous media capture and social media, not to mention a still-difficult labor market.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

The students’ personal learning networks of friends, forum users, Twitter followers and Facebook friends provide a rich source of knowledge gathering when they are at home, but use of such networks is excluded from their classrooms. There are (at least) six powerful motivations fueling learning socially. DO IT YOURSELF.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

The students’ personal learning networks of friends, forum users, Twitter followers and Facebook friends provide a rich source of knowledge gathering when they are at home, but use of such networks is excluded from their classrooms. There are (at least) six powerful motivations fueling learning socially. DO IT YOURSELF.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. ” “Students, Directory Information , and Social Media – Part 2” by Bill Fitzgerald. “In May 2008, as the Great Recession was just beginning, U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

It is tempting to want to return to the days when our social media feeds were mostly pictures of babies and puppies, when we collectively questioned the popularity of the Kardashians, and the most controversial nationwide debate was whether that dress was blue or gold. This…did not happen. And it’s tiring. I know this.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Peter Thiel’s beliefs about free speech and the free press are particularly important as he sits on the Board of Directors of Facebook. (He He was the first investor in the social media company in 2004.) 44% of US adults, according to Pew Research Center , get their news from Facebook. To what end?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

EdSurge connected with O'Neil to hear how her behind-the-scenes view of the 2008 financial crisis led her to try to push for tools that can audit Facebook, Google, and other algorithm-fueled systems now asserting themselves in human affairs. I would say that there are healthy steps that are being taken by those social-media giants.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and Social Media on Violence and Student Safety.” Via Edsurge : “ Facebook Expands Digital Training Initiative with College Partnerships in Chicago.”

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