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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Family Surveys Send out an anonymous family survey at the beginning of the year and after each quarter or semester. These surveys encourage involvement by showing that you value your families’ opinions. Social Media This method for connecting with families continues to grow in popularity. 2011, March).

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

Edsurge

Voters blame the COVID-19 crisis, with two-thirds surveyed saying politics has gotten worse since the start of the pandemic. 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.

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Crunch the Numbers:New Data on Student Wellbeing, the Skills Gap Crisis, and Tech Usage in Utah

eSchool News

The Social Institute , whose mission is to empower millions of students to navigate their social world — including social media and technology — in positive, healthy, and high-character ways, released its 2024 Student Insights Report: How Social Media, Tech, and Current Events Impact Student Well-Being.

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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. Additionally, Millennials spend an average of six to seven hours per week on social media.[2] Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, March 2011, 74(1), pp. Sources : Hartman, J.L.,

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Tools for conviviality? Illich and social media

Learning with 'e's

Ivan Illich hoped for a time when the transmission model of education, or ''funnels'', would be replaced by ''educational webs'' - his notion of what we now recognise as social networks. I wrote a post about the contrast between educational funnels and webs in 2011. 1971) Deschooling Society. Penguin: Harmondsworth. Unported License.

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

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Alexandra Spichtig, Reading Plus Using materials and methods comparable to a survey study conducted in 1960, researchers measured the comprehension-based silent reading efficiency of US students in grades 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 in 2011. The study found that students in 1960 and 2011 read at similar rates in second grade.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

The filters did sometimes keep students from seeing pornographic images, but far more often they kept students from playing online games, browsing social media, and using the internet for legitimate academic work. While many districts blocked YouTube and most blocked social media, only a handful blocked sex education websites.