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Micro-credentials and COVID-19: Supporting Professional Learning When Schools are Closed

Digital Promise

Schools and districts can use the resources in CoSN’s Student Data Privacy micro-credential stack to evaluate online providers for their data privacy practices and communicate with parents and guardians. COVID-19 is the first social media pandemic. Emphasizing digital equity and advocacy. Accessing reliable information.

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Students Are Online Like Never Before. What Does That Mean for Their Privacy?

Edsurge

Among the key findings: K-12 teachers and parents have apparently not been deterred by the hurried transition to digital learning during the pandemic. For both groups, 76 percent support increased levels of online learning even after students return to school full time.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

Grosso and Hameed both believe the transition to remote learning in the U.S. Generation Z students may be digital natives, easily connecting with friends and family on social media apps, but that doesn’t mean they understand how to use the internet as a tool. This need for digital literacy is actually universal.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Who Does Online Education Really Serve? Online education was supposed to provide access to quality education for those who can’t attend or afford traditional college.

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Building Collective Knowledge Through Conversation #engaginglitminds

Reading By Example

As educators, we are part of a collective , responsible to arm our students with tools of agency and self-advocacy. She teaches children to listen to and learn from each other, and to learn about the world by understanding multiple perspectives. Mary provides readers a window into how this could be done.

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Tomorrow, Wednesday June 17th - "Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries" Mini-Conference #library2020

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #smallruralindependent on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. He is active across social media as PC Sweeney.

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New Approaches to Instructional Technology Coaching

Digital Promise

Coaches are sharing, connecting, and growing together to improve their practice via various social learning opportunities, such as online professional learning communities (like Digital Promise’s new professional learning community (PLC) for coaches), social media groups, mentorships, on-demand learning assets, etc.