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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

The book is entitled Communicating & Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and will be available from Solution Tree on May 19, 2011 Using Twitter to Build Your School’s Brand The good news is that open-communication practices in a social media world don’t have to be intimidating.

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Times Have Changed. We Must Teach Children That Words Actually Do Hurt.

Edsurge

Defined by the Social Media Victims Law Center as the use of electronic communication to harass, threaten or humiliate someone, this kind of incivility affects the health and well-being of children. Kids and teens are exposed to cyberbullying in large part through social media.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

0:15 Big Picture Stats 0:54 Andrea Yon's story 1:24 World Literacy Foundation study of the economic and social cost of illiteracy Sponsor: Today’s sponsor, Literal is an app to help students in grades 6-12 engage with reading. October 31, 2011. June 16, 2011. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.

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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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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

Edsurge

Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. How should people approach information online or in social media? And in reality it’s like, ‘No, you're looking at a 2011 photograph, something that happened in Germany, not the U.S.’

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Students Are Reading Slower and Comprehending Less. Here’s What To Do About It.

Edsurge

A recent study sponsored by Reading Plus , an adaptive literacy intervention platform, found that by the time they finish high school, today’s students read 19% slower than their counterparts of 50 years ago. The study found that students in 1960 and 2011 read at similar rates in second grade. Reading Plus Resources.

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