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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

As a former teacher and Director of Instructional Technology he is highly sought after for his expertise in educational technology integration and using social media for learning. He is also responsible in helping create #edchat, a weekly education discussion on Twitter that boasts over 500 weekly participants.

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Why Have A Social Media Policy Anyway? Take 2

The Web20Classroom

Since then I have done a lot of thinking about and talking about social media policy. I repost it now because we are heading into that time of year when people are starting to ask me and the rest of the members of their PLN''s about their best example of social media policies. I originally wrote this post in Sept.

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Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers

Edsurge

registered apprenticeship programs grew 73 percent between 2009 and 2019. In marketing materials, they highlight partnerships with major brands including Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Microsoft and Wells Fargo. Multiverse is doing outreach through Instagram and other social media networks. One of them is Generation USA.

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An #Edchat Conversation-Howard Rheingold and Critical Thinking

The Web20Classroom

He has taught Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS , Fall 2005, 2006, 2007), Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, 2008; UC Berkeley, Spring 2008, 2009), Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005), and Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008).

Microsoft 100
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Do Tech Companies Need To Step Up Their Accessibility Game?

The Innovative Educator

Back in the 80s Tim Berners-Lee was launching the World Wide Web, Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had become the wealthiest person in the world, and Mark Zuckerberg was busy being born. Let's take a look by looking at social media examples. Instagram needs to step up their accessibility game.

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Edtech and Social Emotional Learning #sel

The CoolCatTeacher

It’s one of the benefits of using social media as teachers – to say “These are positive ways that you can use social media,” and then have those students model and practice it… as opposed to saying, “Don’t do this,” or “Don’t do that,” because that leaves them with the gap of “What should I do, then?”.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: September 7, 2017 When can schools punish students for racist social media posts? The program, known as Aadhaar, has collected the names, addresses, phone numbers—and perhaps more significantly, fingerprints, photographs, and iris scans—of more than 1 billion people.

EdTech 150