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What Educators Need to know about Social Media, Online Bullying, and Hate Speech in Schools

Waterford

It can be channeled through social media posts, while gaming, through direct messages, and much more.[2]. Because many students have 24/7 access to a smartphone, online bullies can follow them around, giving no sense of relief. That’s why some districts have started monitoring their students’ social media accounts.

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Will Banning TikTok Make Kids Safer Online? It’s More Complicated Than That

Edsurge

Ask just about anyone what’s behind the downward spiral of youth mental health today, and chances are that social media will be on their list of causes. The committee’s roughly 250-page report also made recommendations for governmental policies and future research on the topic.

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

Waterford

Media literacy’s simplest definition is “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms.”[3] 3] But the real-life challenges of media literacy go beyond that. Today, social media plays an outsized role in how people get their information. Sometimes easier.

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Digital Literacy Programs Prepare Students for a Tech-Enabled Future

EdTech Magazine

K–12 students have more access to the internet than ever, thanks to the multitude of personal devices at their fingertips. . Kids aged 8–18 years old are in front of screens for seven hours every day on average, CBS News reports. This part of the curriculum, too, should expand beyond the negatives. by Jennifer Brown.

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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

Edsurge

Previous studies have also shown that students receive different guidance from their counselors, with some students even turning to social media sites like YouTube to determine what math courses to take. Some of the dissimilarities in the report are mysterious.

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Why K–12 Students Need to Be Taught to Guard Their Data Online

EdTech Magazine

Students are particularly vulnerable to data theft and breaches because they have “clean” data — unblemished credit reports and pristine Social Security numbers — that cybercriminals want to exploit. In an always-online world, many students use public Wi-Fi networks to access the internet for homework and for entertainment.

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Inside the podcast that reignited the reading wars

The Hechinger Report

.” As an education journalist and a parent, I’ve long been fascinated by the question of how children actually learn to read, a big topic for us here at The Hechinger Report. Related: Retraining an entire state’s elementary teacher in the science of reading. Some 67,000 U.S.