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Newark Board of Ed, Prudential Financial, and Discovery Education Launch Partnership Supporting Academic Achievement

eSchool News

A global community of education professionals, the Discovery Education Community connects members across school systems and around the world through social media, virtual conferences, and in-person events, fostering valuable networking, idea sharing, and inspiration. Real world success starts with a strong education.”

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7 questions after Governor Branstad’s school funding veto

Dangerously Irrelevant

These, personnel sharing arrangements, and other successes are a testament to the hard work of our educators, school systems, and communities. Although social media was a big part of this year’s school funding dialogue, slacktivism can be a fairly easy trap to fall into. Are our representatives actually representing our wishes?

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Final Schedule - "Wholehearted Libraries" Online Mini-Conference on Tuesday, March 10th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #wholeheartedlibraries on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. We invite all library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators to participate in this event. She is the Immediate Past President of the American Library Association.

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Critical Thinking Skills to Help Students Better Evaluate Scientific Claims

MindShift

The internet has no shortage of dubious information; and the ability to evaluate health and science claims is a subset of media literacy. With the abundance of health/science content students may only see via social media, kids are ill-equipped to discern hype from real science.

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'I Learn Things on Twitter That I Don’t Learn at Harvard': Clint Smith on Inequality and Technology

Edsurge

Social media is not going to fundamentally take someone who doesn't believe in climate change and then make them believe in climate change. Sometimes, I think the best advocacy on behalf of the communities can be simply to listen and lift up voices that aren't often lifted up—to amplify the voices of those who are often on the margin.

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Join Us for the Third Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 23rd, 2018 in Boston

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Global Leadership Summit will provide participants the unique opportunity to: Develop the capacity to lead classrooms and educational systems that teach students empathy, valuing diverse perspectives, cross-cultural communication and collaboration skills, and critical thinking and problem-solving around real-world issues.

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The 2015 Global Education Conference Starts Today - All Online - Full Session Listing - Join Us!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our social media page is HERE with links to Facebook , Google+ , Twitter , and more. Email steve@hargadon.com. Help Promote the Conference: We can still use your help to share the conference with your colleagues, associates, friends, family (!), and the world. Publicity resources, along with images you can use, are HERE.