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The Social Media Game Elementary School Students Should Be Playing

The Innovative Educator

Most recently I had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of elementary students about social media and which platforms they are using. MovieStarPlanet is a blend of Facebook and YouTube with a learning dimension added." Admittedly, I''m not much of a user of social media platforms for the under 13 set, so I knew I had a lot to learn.

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FAQs For Educational Bloggers

The Web20Classroom

I’ve had this blog since 2009. Are you an elementary teacher? Read elementary blogs. Use your social media channels like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to let everyone know you have a new post. For me, blogging has become a part of my learning process and a platform through which I share information.

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GitHub?s New Education Bundle Equips Students With Industry-Standard Coding Tools

Edsurge

GitHub is where many companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, host their open-source projects. Still, GitHub may prove a difficult learning curve for coding beginners and elementary-grade classes where introductory lessons tend to focus on individual exercises and projects (like making games), notes Vaidyanathan.

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Top 10 Social Networking Guidelines for Educators Who Wish to Keep Their Career Intact

EdTechSandyK

I put this together about two months ago at the request of some educational technology professionals I know who were curious about boundaries when it comes to what to post and do on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. I tweaked it just this week to present to a group of elementary (K-5) teachers.

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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

This theory requires the student to passively accept information and knowledge as presented by the instructor (Pogue, 2009, para. Possible networks, many with corresponding apps, include: Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo, Instagram, Blogging sites, Youtube, and other social networks. The genesis and emergence of Education 3.0 Pogue, L.S.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. Think about it in a lower elementary classroom. Through the use of Twitter, Facebook and other sites, educators are starting to see the power of social media to extend learning beyond the classroom. I want to be hip.

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Microsoft to spend $75M to boost computer science

eSchool News

Kevin Wang, a Microsoft engineer with a master’s degree in education from Harvard, proposed the idea in 2009 after volunteering as a computer science teacher at a Seattle public high school. The program pairs engineers from Microsoft and other high-tech companies with teachers to team-teach computer science in high schools.