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Level Up Your Leadership

A Principal's Reflections

Like most kids, past, and present, I loved playing video games. Our goal was simple…acquire skills through analysis, practice, and watching others to reach new or more challenging levels. Social media is, and still represents, one of the most powerful ways to move a learning culture forward and engage with stakeholders.

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How to defeat fake news–one teacher’s ideas

Ask a Tech Teacher

What has increased in the last decade is the prevalence of ‘fake new’, what used to be called ‘yellow journalism’, where news is presented ina way that garners views and clicks rather than disseminates the truth. The roots of misinformation about Russia’s invasion stretch back further than social media.

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Student-Generated Real-Time Word Clouds

Catlin Tucker

Mentimeter–a cloud-based interactive presentation software–is super easy to use and has a robust free version. For example, at the start of our unit on social media, I asked my students “What words come to mind when you think of social media?” I love that I did NOT have to create it.

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How digital tools and AI can enhance social studies

eSchool News

These tools encompass a broad spectrum of resources, including educational apps, multimedia presentations, virtual field trips, and interactive maps–all of which have the potential to enhance the teaching and learning of social studies.

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What to Know About SQL and How to Try it Out

Ask a Tech Teacher

SQL is incredibly popular in several industries, such as finance, music, data analysis, web development, and social media, making it really useful. . The prime function of SQL is data analysis. The SQL programming language has become a standardized database technology , so it’s unlikely it’s going anywhere anytime soon.

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Guest Post: Helping Students Navigate Online Sources with Critical Literacy

Digital Promise

Focusing on developing critical literacy with students can help students question their sources during academic research and when faced with information from outside of school, namely on social media. Teachers can utilize engaging in-class activities to immerse students in content while demonstrating source evaluation.

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Why I’m Integrating the World Cup Into My English Class, Despite My Disinterest in Sports

Edsurge

If teachers are responding to calls on social media to integrate more stories of historically marginalized groups, and these lessons are centered on the same literacy practices that only adjust who the texts were written by and for, we are not adopting culturally responsive teaching practices.

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