Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Today’s students tend to read shorter texts within a variety of platforms on social media, websites and apps. In Canada, assessment reforms and innovations are slowly taking shape.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Recently, the American College Application Campaign (ACAC) hit a home run as part of its social media marketing campaign to drive inspire students across the country to apply for college at college application events at schools throughout the nation. Here’s how you can follow their lead using the six Es of social engagement.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Editor's note: If you're an innovative educator in secondary school, you are likely to have parents ask for your expert advice on teens and social media. You can give them this article directly or use it to get some ideas about how to best approach the conversation. The good news is you are prepared to do this.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. One example is around telecommunications and how some nations have skipped land-based lines right to a robust cellular network.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2019

“Access to an effective school library program is one example of information privilege. Our secondary school had a good library and a professional librarian. Editor’s Note: This article was first published on the Blue Skunk Blog.]. The absence of access is one symptom of information poverty.”—

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 14, 2017

Things may change by the time this article reaches you, so please leave comments and questions below. Background Knowledge: A national survey reported teenagers spend an average of eight hours a day using various forms of media. You can also make a social media safety contract for both parents and kids to sign.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

Instead, they would rather stick their heads into their smartphones and stay glued to social media or texting their friends. According to this article, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder gave points to college students for submitting their phones before class. The examples given above are not complete solutions.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

The Canadian Education Association 's 2015 Ken Spencer Award has awarded Inquiry Hub Secondary School with first place. Inquiry Hub Secondary School – School District No. Inquiry Hub Secondary School is a wonderful example of personalized learning within the public school system. FIRST PLACE. 43 (Coquitlam).

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

This article is part of an upcoming EdSurge Guide exploring innovations in student success, publishing March 26. This is where partnerships come in; post-secondary student-serving organizations, like YearUp , can play a valuable role in complementing the student services colleges and universities provide. A family at graduation.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, Thrively is a terrific tool for getting to know what students care about and how they thrive. When it comes to secondary school or teachers of subjects like technology where they see many classes, it is quite possible teachers respond this way with good reason. There are definitely ways technology can help with this.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Teacher Voices: This article is part of a series of from-the-classroom perspectives. Global digital citizens think about how they can use technology and digital media to be of service and change the world. Take it a step further by having students investigate how you can use social media for social change.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Another "big" for Texas is education, and when I'm looking to get a pulse on what the current trends and landscape are, I turn to social media! I love the way @MrsFyffe_BCE shares a variety of examples in this blog post that illustrate how she purposefully orients students to each others' ideas. December 14, 2019.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 16, 2013

I am thrilled to share that many of the nominees from "The Innovative Educator" here (for their work with student-centered learning) and here (for use of social media in education) made the cut. Chris helps to keep them in the know with the PS 10 social media platforms.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

million post-secondary educators are at risk of losing their jobs today by performing one single act: Posting on social media. billion active social media users at the start of 2021, according to DataReportal.com. So, does this article imply that educators should not engage in social media?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.) Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 4, 2023

Everyone seemed to be talking about it on social media. I think this usage of the term is problematic for a number of reasons; for example, it’s confusing to refer to approaches such as specifications grading as “ungrading” when grades are in fact being given. Faculty reading groups emerged everywhere.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. There can also be a temptation for children to use other technologies whilst viewing content, such as utilising social media and temporary blocks on other tools during flipped learning activities should be considered.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 22, 2016

For example, they know that they want to have a certain task moved completely off their plate in one month’s time so they can focus on something else, and that vision–the intention of being DONE with that project–motivates them to keep working toward it. Checking social media!

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2018

An example of this might be… if I say “Put those numbers in order: 56, 33, 22, 28.”. Another example of limiting choices is that a lot of parents will ask their kids, “What did you do today?” She says one of the problems that kids have when they are reading textbooks… Textbooks, particularly in secondary, are super-complex.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This article is part of the upcoming guide, What Does Reading Well Look Like? One of the most impactful activities from my Master’s coursework in secondary English education was a reader biography. When the reading biography lesson failed, I asked students to take out their phones and look at all the apps they “read.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

10 things wrong with what kids learn in school Technology and the Future(s) of the University Teaching kids about privacy and social media gains traction New Lingua.ly Ted Bauer shared this amazing article that gives highlights and video clips from student presentations on the future of schools. Read more here. Thanks, Mark!

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

At Maury County Public Schools (TN), for example, families can check out WiFi-enabled devices for two weeks at a time. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Today, the parents see the value and are more supportive of the digital transition. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Media Literacy Scope and Sequence Template (by The Media Spot): While not a curriculum, this detailed template can serve as the foundation of a whole-school approach to media literacy curricular integration. Note: The template is linked near the bottom of the article.)

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Common Sense Media article " How much screen time is OK for my kid(s)? The classroom is a great place to model media balance. For example, technology can be helpful for students researching and collaborating on a topic, but tech use should be limited or restricted during in-class discussion.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 7, 2021

Help kids analyze information not only in long-form articles, but also in the mediums they frequently consume, such as video, memes, and social media images. An example that I give all the time is when I was a social studies teacher, I never got past the 1980s. ” I absolutely love that phrase.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

This article will not have an admin option. This article is about book choice as well, but it’s about the choice to say no (how to say no, how to tell when you should say no, what are the ramifications of saying no, what to do when you maybe should have said no but said yes instead, and how to turn a no into a consenting yes).

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

The Internet and the applications which allow for connection such as social media, text applications, voice over IP and video conferencing applications enable authentic connections to each other and others outside the school walls. Throw social media into the mix and the potential is huge.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Research indicates that while about 18 percent of students fail to graduate from high school, close to 50 percent of teachers leave within five years, including 17 percent of first-year teachers (as described in a Washington Post article and by the National Education Association and the National Center for Education Statistics).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Social media inspiration. Among my favorite examples is Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy , enhanced with verbs and owls. Magazine Cover to create magazine and article titles, publication date, price, and more. I have some serious faves when it comes to sketchnoters and infographic creators. On historical thinking.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) And Pokémon Go’s PokéStops and Gyms were rarely found in low-income neighborhoods and in areas where the population was not overwhelmingly white. (I’ll

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We have no real restrictions on this at this point, and we're not looking for any specific topic -- just articles in the 500-1000 word range, not too formal, but interesting to other readers. A lot of you might have found me through the GTD for Academics series, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Just as Covid vaccines don’t end up magnetizing people , and what actually constitutes critical race theory has never been taught in primary and secondary schools, there is no agenda to create a parenting permit — an idea that would be as anathema to the left as to the right. The Federalist article is extreme — and it’s purposeful.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. What are promises that – legally – post-secondary institutions can or must make? So I thought maybe this is the way it works.” What is the implied promise?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.)

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