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6 Best Online Avatar Maker Tools

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Avatars are especially ideal to use for profile pics on social media or gaming websites. Once the avatar is completed, you can share it on social media websites or download it in png format and use it on your blog or website. Once your avatar is ready, save it and use it on your social media profiles.

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Give Classroom Photos Some Flair with the Moldiv Collage App

Fractus Learning

Compatibility : iOS / Android. Take a look at some of the examples created by History teacher and education blogger, John Mitchell who uses Moldiv to create fun exercises for his students. Moldiv exercise example – Cuban missile crisis. Name : Moldiv. Pricing : Free. Access : No signup required. Privacy : Standalone app.

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Lessons from Teaching with Games

ProfHacker

Writing about games can be an exercise in communication. I particularly like their achievement-based rubric, which includes social media oriented tasks like using Twitter or Tumblr along with technical challenges like creating an iPhone or Android app to act as part of the game. Photo by Flickr User Karen ].

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To Keep Teens Safe Online, They Need To Learn To Manage Risk

MindShift

Horror stories of social media harassment and exposure to explicit content leading to teen suicide or even murder abound. Researchers looked at 74 Android mobile apps and found that 89 percent of the security features on the apps focus on parental control by blocking and monitoring teens’ online activities.

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15 Ways for Students to Use Google Keep [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

This is also an excellent way to create other types of habits as well, like remembering to take your backpack home, drink water, exercise, etc. Voice Notes is a feature available in the iOS and Android mobile apps (not currently available on the desktop version). Group Projects. No other product comes close! Mobile Voice Notes.

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Facebook and Fake News: Esther Wojcicki On Teaching Digital Journalism in High School

Edsurge

It's going to be available on the iTunes store and the Android store soon. I got a lot of exercise doing that. I'm also thinking, pivoting a little bit again, about the social media aspect, and the role that's played for your students. So that, I would say, is No. I have a student who's working on a crazy idea.

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Educator tools for media literacy and how to advocate for truth

The Cornerstone for Teachers

How social media and search engine algorithms shape our thinking about what’s true. And it’s also private, because when you do it on someone’s social media profile, there’s an audience, and that changes the interaction. Having open, offline conversations with people who think differently.

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