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The Skinny on Hashtags

A Principal's Reflections

Upon getting on Twitter in 2009, I was not only baffled about how to use the social media site but also about all the symbols associated with it. Let’s start by defining what a hashtag (#) is in the sense of social media. Engage in an online book study or start your own. One of them was the hashtag (#).

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How Facebook Can Improve Privacy By Talking More With Academics

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It has evolved into the most prominent data scandals in Facebook’s history, after personal information from some 87 million Facebook was passed along by Kogan to the political consulting company Cambridge Analytica. EdSurge: How did you get into studying issues of data privacy and social media?

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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

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based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. Social media continues to be a contentious space with murky boundaries between what’s public and private. “Is The degree of privacy a student gets should not be dependent on that student’s socioeconomic status.

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Unintended Consequences: How Gates Foundation Money Steered Uversity Into Trouble

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This article, “ Unintended Consequences ,” was first published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 Jamie Glenn, chief executive of a once-hot social media startup, was between a rock and a hard place. In 2010, the potential of social media was not widely understood.

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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

is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort. Education 1.0: A Pedagogical, Essentialist Education. Education 1.0 With Web 2.0,

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Tart Retorts and Tools: Overheard at SXSWedu

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Andrew Joseph, Agarwal's cofounder, went on to join the Amazon Education team as VP of Strategic Relations after TenMarks got acquired in 2013. But 76 percent of kids prefer to get their news from social media (especially from Facebook). Agarwal isn't the only TenMarks founder to have left the Seattle-based tech giant.

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Teens and Tech: Distinguishing Addiction from Habit

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. “Technology addiction” doesn’t appear in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, published in 2013. The closest it comes is something called “Internet Gaming Disorder,” and that is listed as a condition for further study, not an official diagnosis. Seeking treatment.