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

Edsurge

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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Whose Land? Understanding Indigenous Peoples Through Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2008, he was named by Contribute Magazine as one of 10 Tech Revolutionaries Redefining the Power and Face of Philanthropy. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal. They also have the capacity to support personal learning.

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edWeb Wins SIIA Education Technology CODiE Award for Best Collaborative Social Media Solution for Educators

edWeb.net

It was announced yesterday that edWeb.net is the winner of the SIIA CODiE Award for Best Collaborative Social Media Solution for Educators. ” Lisa Schmucki, founder and CEO commented, “We thank all of our members, our presenters, and our partners who make edWeb truly collaborative, and free for educators.

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Costs and Benefits of Social Media in Education

Reading By Example

This lead presents a counter to the promise of the Internet facilitating powerful connections among people. There is little doubt that social media and engaging in global and diverse conversations has brought many benefits to society at large, especially for our younger generation studied extensively by Ito and colleagues (2008).

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Costs and Benefits of Social Media in Education

Reading By Example

This lead presents a counter to the promise of the Internet facilitating powerful connections among people. There is little doubt that social media and engaging in global and diverse conversations has brought many benefits to society at large, especially for our younger generation studied extensively by Ito and colleagues (2008).

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OPINION: The pandemic challenged school administrators, but didn’t break us

The Hechinger Report

Teachers, administrators, students and their parents are cautiously optimistic going into the fall term, but still looking over their shoulders, worried that the impact of the past 18 months on students’ and staff’s mental health will present another set of novel challenges. Related: Lessons learned. Those factors are not going away.