Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Teacher Voices: This article is part of a series of from-the-classroom perspectives. According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey , nearly eight in 10 Americans have at least a desktop computer, and 77 percent of Americans across all demographics own a smartphone. Have your class adopt a global project (e.g.,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Checking social media! Clicking through from your Facebook feed to read a lengthy article does not clear your mind so you can read and grade student essays. Access to elementary and secondary private Facebook groups where I–and hundreds of other teachers—share ideas and answer questions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Sara Stringer, has a good article this month on literacy among children and how to improve the dismal statistics : In the Middle Ages, literacy was highly valued. Indifference to learning is the primary source of low literacy, all other causes are secondary. Everyone deserves to have fun while learning.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

This article will not have an admin option. This article is about book choice as well, but it’s about the choice to say no (how to say no, how to tell when you should say no, what are the ramifications of saying no, what to do when you maybe should have said no but said yes instead, and how to turn a no into a consenting yes).

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Common Sense Media article " How much screen time is OK for my kid(s)? The classroom is a great place to model media balance. An established policy or set of guidelines for using apps, including social media -- whether you're considering it as part of your class or just to communicate with students.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans | Washington University Law Review → This article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the application of predictive analytics.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Their answers to that question, plus.mp3 audio files for listening to these special interviews, as well as a number of articles and books, are all part of the bonus package for buying the Summit all-access library pass. David teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Social Entrepreneurship, and Economics. He holds a Ph.D.

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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. My students are all about social media. Northport, N.Y.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market. Read Mindstorms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. What are promises that – legally – post-secondary institutions can or must make? So I thought maybe this is the way it works.” What is the implied promise?

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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. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The Goldwater Institute is also backed by the Koch Brothers, the libertarian mega-donors who were one of the key figures in Jane Meyer’s 2016 book Dark Money. In 2016 that meant 111 speakers on 77 campuses. More on the latter in an upcoming article in this series. Social Media and Weaponized Data.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

These have all been separate articles in each series. I’ve already made references to for-profit higher education in the second and third articles in this year-end series – on the “ innovation gospel ” and on the business of student loans. The prison market. “The new economy.”

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