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7 Mindsets Launches App Focused on Mindsets Learning and Well-being for Educators, Students and Families

eSchool News

For students, it serves to reinforce the Mindsets learning in the classroom. Within the app, users can access 7 Mindsets’ popular quote of the day, create a list of favorite quotes and share the quotes via email, messaging, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. To learn more, go to [link].

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Social Media is Not Just For Students

A Principal's Reflections

When principals hear the words Twitter and Facebook they cringe. Quite simply, social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook have improved my effectiveness and efficiency as an educational leader. As I learned from my students, many more people use the social media tool, Facebook, than use Twitter.

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New Posted Resources 12/16/2009

The Web20Classroom

on Facebook - NYTimes.com tags : Facebook , favorite Posted from Diigo.

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Why Digital Leadership? #digilead

A Principal's Reflections

It is about taking a hard look at the type of school culture leaders are currently sustaining and asking is this really preparing our students for success. I have witnessed and been a part of a dramatic transformation process at NMHS that began in 2009 when I gave social media a try.

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Upcoming Enhancements to Discovery Education’s Award-Winning Techbook Series to Help Educators Maximize Instructional Time

techlearning

(June 25, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional learning for K-12 classrooms, today announced that upcoming enhancements to its award-winning Techbook series will help educators maximize instructional time by making engaging digital content even more accessible to teachers and students.

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Peter Thiel and the Future (and Funding) of Education Technology

Hack Education

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 44% of US adults, according to Pew Research Center , get their news from Facebook. Uversity (student engagement platform, formerly Inigral, acquired by TargetX). To what end?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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