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How to Encourage Youth Leadership on Your Campus

The CoolCatTeacher

He founded the www.teachlearnlead.org global edu-library in 2013 and the Center for Global Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurial Studies at Brandon Hall School [link] (Facebook @BHSglobalyouth) in 2016. Blog: [link]. Twitter: @djftll. . Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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How Facebook Can Improve Privacy By Talking More With Academics

Edsurge

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? Or watch a video version.

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The Skinny on Hashtags

A Principal's Reflections

Back in 2013 Mashable provided the following description that adds more context as well as some great tips: The pound sign (or hash) turns any word or group of words that directly follow it into a searchable link. Engage in an online book study or start your own. You can use multiple hashtags in one tweet, but don’t go overboard.

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Facebook Donates $15M to Code.org to Diversify Computer Science Education

Edsurge

Looking to diversify its portfolio of charities and its workforce at the same time, Facebook has pledged $15 million over the next five years to Code.org , a nonprofit working to expand the availability of computer science (CS) education. Founded in 2013, Code.org aims to expand access to computer science in a number of ways.

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EdmodoCon 2013 Guest Post #5: J. Karabinas

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

Edmodo is a Social Learning Platform- think secure Facebook for classes/schools Carefully instructing students how to use this platform is key. Another student began to find links that enhanced our study of Biographies. Let me help you later today during Writer’s Workshop.” How do es this happen? Students with anxiety?

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How Extended Reality Tools Can Bring New Life to Higher Education

Edsurge

2012 saw the development of Oculus, a virtual reality headset company that Facebook later acquired for more than $2 billion. In 2013, Google started selling consumers Glass, a computer built into a pair of glasses. Instead of studying drawings or renderings of molecules, students could see these virtually in 3D.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

Gisela Quiñones in Indiana has been home-schooling her two children for years and runs a Facebook group for Latino families who home-school. The nonprofit Muslim Homeschool Network now has several thousand likes and follows on its Facebook page. If you know your culture, if you know where you come from, you’re stronger,” she said.

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