eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Now with the help of Facebook and the Ravenswood Education Foundation, he’s come close to reaching that goal. “For all we know, the founder of the next Facebook is right here in the Ravenswood School District.” ©2015 the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.). at www.mercurynews.com.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 4, 2019

Case Study: What is the #MoMoChallenge? It started with reports of someone or something luring students via social media accounts on Facebook and WhatsApp to do harm to themselves and others under threat of public humiliation and physical intimidation. Questions to Ask Yourself Is the source authentic?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

which makes weighted blankets and sleep sacks, points to multiple studies about toddlers and adults using weighted blankets on a web page about the product’s safety for infants. The company also includes one infant study as evidence of its products’ safety. I kind of stumbled upon it on Facebook … nobody really talked about safe sleep.”

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

Tagged on: August 19, 2017 Cost Shouldn’t Keep Students From Taking AP Exams | Slate → In 2015 the Texas Legislature appropriated $10 million in its budget to develop educational resources that would be available, free of charge, to the more than 1,000 school districts in the state.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 7, 2019

An email pops up on your desktop screen asking for your 'urgent' attention, Facebook messenger pings on your smartphone telling you someone has responded to your earlier status update. The proliferation of technologies such as smartphones, social media and email means employees are increasingly exposed to task interruption.

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MindShift

JANUARY 21, 2020

That’s a record number, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. Falling behind on technology puts seniors at risk for social isolation, which makes them vulnerable to poor health and earlier death. A study by AARP found isolation is associated with nearly $7 billion in additional annual spending by Medicare.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Consider this a case study in evolving social media. Maybe because Twitter and Facebook took up some of our desire to jot down short observations from life. So now it’s 2015 and I’d like to revisit this project. I asked around social media for feedback. Here’s the story.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

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. Uversity was acquired by TargetX in 2015. and Catherine T.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Last week I laid out 3 Untapped Social Media Resources for Teachers. This week we take a look at how to leverage social networks for students. She is right in the heart of the age range for kids who use social media the most (13-18 yrs old). Most of her time is spent on Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 29, 2015

More than once, a relative referenced a picture and/or comment one of us made on Facebook (usually about our kids). We shared a laugh about the event that we would not have known without social media. Tom Whitby (@tomwhitby) September 4, 2015. These connections served to bring us closer together. My guess is no.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Since a recent Stanford study showed that students at practically all grade levels can’t determine fake news from the real stuff, the push to teach media literacy has gained new momentum. NPR Ed put out a social media call asking how educators are teaching fake news and media literacy, and we got a lot of responses.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 29, 2015

When nine worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, West Virginia, were murdered on June 17, 2015, social media news feeds quickly filled with opinionated posts about the impacts, meaning, and historical precedents surrounding the event. that contributed to the Charleston attack.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). Our social media page is HERE with links to Facebook , Google+ , Twitter , and more.

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MindShift

MAY 19, 2015

We reported on a small study in which students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder performed better on memory tasks when they were allowed to spin and move around in a swiveling chair. Copyright 2015 NPR. Our story last week about the connection between ADHD, movement and thinking struck a nerve with readers. Let us know.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The study looked at data for over five million students in grades 3 through 8 who had taken NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments in 2017-2018. The study looked at two scenarios: a “slowdown,” in which students stayed at the same level of academic achievement from the days schools closed until the new school year begins.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A separate revision also allowed for the release of student data to organizations to conduct studies or audits on the effectiveness of educational programs — significantly increasing the number of parties with access to student data. Thousands of companies monitor social media for mentions of their company and products.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Morehouse, Spelman, And Clark-Atlanta University Homecoming Parade at Morehouse College on October 24, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. Gasman also pointed to a Facebook group, “ The HBCU vs PWI [ predominantly white institution ] Great Debate ,” where students and parents have expressed similar feelings.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

April 27th - May 11th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Stay tuned for all events at [link] , which also has Facebook event links for each activity. Library 2.015 Spring Summit: This Week!

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The Principal of Change

JULY 13, 2016

Getting a message from a friend on Facebook, she had mentioned Daniel Pink’s book “Drive” , and it reminded me of how much his Ted Talk really made an impact on my learning and thinking. I’ll give you one very dramatic example of this: a study that was done of investments in voluntary retirement plans.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2018

Social media and social activism appear to be undeniably interwoven among Black users. People working in higher education must try to understand why Black youth see social media as viable tools to share their thoughts on social issues. Meanwhile, just 39 percent of whites said the same thing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. This is not necessarily something you might teach in a classroom, but it’s certainly something that’s relevant to every student and every teacher in our schools, and that’s social media.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. This information-packed resource from digital experts Anderson and Whitby makes it easy to build a thriving professional network using social media.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

I’ve spent my free time socializing with other educators and participating in Twitter chats and Facebook groups about teaching. I was a double major in college actually — early childhood education and art, with a minor in women’s studies — that all fits the trajectory of my journey, right?).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2015

These reflections and social media tips will help bloggers covering ISTE. The Top-Clicked Twitter Link of 2014-2015 (1988 clicks). These tweets teach: Sketchnoting is being studied by educators. I tweeted this three times: Dec 2014, Jan 2015, May 2015. I will give you the spreadsheet at the end.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 23, 2016

This post from NPR titled, “Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away”, was shared multiple times on social media, and I shared it was well. For one thing, research shows that laptops and tablets have a tendency to be distracting — it’s so easy to click over to Facebook in that dull lecture. s8KHExBDE4.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

Finally, Dr. Marczak focused on the demand and need for a consistent and transparent parent community by launching a Facebook Live and Periscope blast to talk directly to parents and community members about what was going on in the schools. Dr. Wright earned her doctorate in leadership studies from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When Cruey still has questions, he will glean information through listening to the constant murmur of student gossip in hallways, tracking social media posts and keeping his ear to the ground at church. “My In 2015, the abandoned school was burned down in an act of arson. Occasionally we see him on Facebook.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Understanding when, where, and how learning takes place has never been more important. and MAIT : Beyond the Buzzwords: How to infuse SEL, flipped learning, & more into everyday activities Kate Baker, M.Ed What You Say and What They Hear: A Challenge for Teachers and Instructional Coaches Sugata Mitra : Can Kids Teach Themselves?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. My students are all about social media. High School social studies teacher. My students are all about social media.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I post my thoughts, my writing on my own websites , even though social media has really discouraged us from doing this. I delete all my tweets after 30 days; I regularly delete everything I’ve posted to Facebook; I delete old emails. Stop and think about the ways in which this occurs. Skinner won; Papert lost.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Indeed, she’s quite methodical with her study – her inspection, introspection – of grief. Bush ), and the invocation of facts, evidence, and expertise in political arguments (particularly those arguments on social media) is now interpreted as bias rather objectivity. That famous Arthur C. So who do you believe?

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Professional journalists themselves face new practical and ethical challenges relating to anonymity, privacy and safety, as well as reliability in their attempts to verify sources of breaking news from social media and user generated content in all media formats. (The On news literacy. Not as a lesson of good vs. bad.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I first read an article by Seymour Papert in a Women’s Studies class in the mid 1990s – “ Epistemological Pluralism ,” which he co-wrote with Sherry Turkle. Never forget: Bill Gates once called constructionism “b t.” ” ). “Hardly anyone,” either way.).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

I’m going with the full NY Daily News headline here (because, you know, NY Daily News): “EXCLUSIVE: Shocking Facebook videos reveal brutal ‘ Fight Club ’ run by Bronx High School of Science students (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT).” Via the Hechinger Report : “ For-profit colleges stay quietly on offense.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Rather it’s a history itself – ideally one that’s useful for our thinking about the past, present, and future in the way in which the study of history always should be. 2015 was a record-setting year for investment in education technology, with some $4 billion flowing into the industry globally.

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