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Scientists and social media: an important new study

Bryan Alexander

In contrast, social media is only a viable communication method for a minority of these scientists. Nearly 80% take the opposite view: “Fully 77% say that promoting their research on social media is not too or not at all important for career advancement in their specialty. ” Good!

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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

Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 This theory requires the student to passively accept information and knowledge as presented by the instructor (Pogue, 2009, para. Form their own learning communities possibly using social networking tools suggested and/or set up by the educator.

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Everything Doesn’t Always Have to Be Awesome on Social Media

Philly Teacher

It got me thinking about how I’ve been feeling catching back up on social media over the last month, and I reflected on how it felt when I first discovered Twitter back in 2009. Needless to say, there hasn’t been much time in my life for social media as there used to be.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Communicating with Generation X, Y, and Z Parents

Waterford

They are generally comfortable with technology and navigate smartphones or social media platforms with little trouble. In fact, 68% of all Millennials report they text “a lot” every day, in comparison to 47% of Gen Xers.[9] Additionally, Millennials spend an average of six to seven hours per week on social media.[2]

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How Classroom Political Discussions — Controversies, Too — Prepare Students for Needed Civic Participation

MindShift

In debate, Wunn noted, debaters must be prepared to argue both sides of an issue in order to win, which he said gives them a piece currently missing from political conversations they might encounter on social media. Follow her on Twitter @hkorbey. . A Twenty-first Century Guide to Politics in the Classroom .

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

.” The photographic evidence clearly showed otherwise – the crowds on the mall were visibly smaller than those gathered for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. And even if those photographs were somehow misleading, the 1.5

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Thiel, who lamented women’s suffrage in a 2009 article for the Cato Institute, has been well-known in Silicon Valley as a libertarian, and some observers struggled to explain why Thiel would back an authoritarian for president. Thiel spoke at the Republican Party Convention, the first gay man to take the main stage at that event.