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Students Turn to TikTok for Study Buddies

Edsurge

“It helps people create a community around studying,” she says. Thompson is part of a trend of college and high school students who stream themselves studying on TikTok or YouTube, often using the hashtag #studywithme. As a graduate student, I'm still hitting the books while others are hitting the beach ?️

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7 Ways To Use Technology For Exam Prep

Ask a Tech Teacher

Use social media platforms to engage with students and provide supplemental resources. You can also use social media platforms to connect with your students to help them prepare for their exams. Additionally, you can provide supplemental resources, such as links to online study guides or practice tests.

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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.” A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence.

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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

Here is a sneak peek at my new book co-authored by Bill Ferriter and Jason Ramsden. Social media services paired with high rates of Internet connectivity allow multiple forms of information—web links, videos, audio files, images, text messages, and documents—to be delivered and consumed in multiple ways.

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Unfortunately, a sizeable portion of this academic scholarship is locked behind paywalls thus restricting its access to those who can afford to pay. Several researchers and students are unable to afford the high costs required for access thus crippling their efforts to participate in the generation of quality knowledge.

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What Brings Gen Z to the Library?

Edsurge

Ninety-two percent check social media daily. But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall. They also did ethnographic research at two Ohio public library branches.

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ISTE Day 0 Recap for my #NotatISTE #ISTELive Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Must-Read Tech Book. First, I’m reading an incredible book that came out during the Pandemic The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Businesses Industries and Our Lives by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Some books I’d recommend besides the one in the opener include: ?

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