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Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media for ‘worrisome behavior’

eSchool News

Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media posts for signs they might engage in violence on campus or harm themselves so that school staff — and in some cases police — can intervene. Chicago Public Schools piloted a similar social media monitoring program in the mid-2010s. newsletters.

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Ways to Build Media Literacy in Your Students, and Why You Should

Waterford

The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media. Today, social media plays an outsized role in how people get their information. Take a News Literacy Quiz.

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Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School Selects Discovery Education’s Mystery Science to Support Deeper Student Engagement in the 2022-2023 School Year

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. We are excited to begin the school year with these new resources.”.

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Graduation 2020 - Ideas When #RemoteLearning

The Innovative Educator

Graduation in 2020 will be unlike any graduation before it. Elementary school students in Japan created a Minecraft graduation. Get Social Celebrate each graduate on social media with specific information such as a quote, memory, what they'll miss, and what's next. Fortnite is another option.

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Choose Your Own Adventure Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2020, CoSN named Laurie one of the NextGen: Emerging EdTech Leaders. Additionally, Laurie is a member of the NYSCATE Social Media Team and Volunteer Hall of Fame. Laurie Guyon is the Coordinator for Model Schools at WSWHE BOCES and a trainer with NYSCATE. She is part of the first DigCit Institute Global Impactor Cohort.

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What kids stand to lose if 2020 steals kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

“I find the grief about the lost semester of school to virtual learning (the social interactions and experiences I can’t replicate at home) comes in waves and at unexpected times,” Parker said in her email. million — pre-pandemic prediction for 2020-21 kindergarten enrollment. Kindergarten matters a lot.”. “The

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PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

The Hechinger Report

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” Some racked up considerably more hours. A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence.

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