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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. We are honored by this wonderful recognition, and thankful to SIIA for helping us grow since our founding in 2008.”

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Social Media Is Here to Stay: Get Out of the Way or Become Roadkill!!

The 21st Century Principal

They are banning the use of social media as a means to communicate with students and parents. It is misguided foolishness to think that social media is magically turning teachers into predators, preying on our nation''s children. Social media is here to stay. Blaming the medium for the problem never works.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Can Marketing Automation Bring College Enrollment Numbers Up?

Edsurge

San Mateo, CA-based marketing software company Marketo announced today a growth of 44 education customers who have signed on, renewed or expanded their agreements from January to July 2016. And increasingly, colleges are shifting to digital marketing strategies, social media outreach and mobile platforms.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

The Hechinger Report

Troy Groom, of Hyattsville, Maryland, was browsing social media this spring when he read something that made him perk up: Gov. His first job was a $45,000 “tier one” tech support position with a health care software developer. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. One project known as the WikiLit project is offered as a means for students to gather together evidence of core skills in and around literacy and numeracy learning (Wheeler et al, 2008).

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Physical Education w/ #Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Founder of www.connectedpe.com & over 100 educational software products & services. But if you’ve got the ability to connect to other people just like we are right now through social media or any sort of other platform, that’s the real leverage. Full Bio As Submitted. Jarrod Robinson. Download the transcript PDF.

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