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Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media for ‘worrisome behavior’

eSchool News

Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media posts for signs they might engage in violence on campus or harm themselves so that school staff — and in some cases police — can intervene. Chicago Public Schools piloted a similar social media monitoring program in the mid-2010s. newsletters.

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How Enhanced Homework Detection Makes Securly Aware Student Wellness Monitoring Even More Reliable and Accurate

Securly

In addition to web searches, Securly Aware scans web browsing activity, emails, and social media posts, as well as Canvas, Google Drive, and OneDrive. Not just a one-time analysis, At-Risk continues to analyze the student’s activities to assess and update their Wellness Level. To learn more, visit our website or contact us.

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Incorporating Social Media and Digital Citizenship in the First-Year Experience Course

Mistakengoal.com

In this post I’ll discuss how we’re approaching the new outcome of “responsible use of the internet and other social media” that the faculty have added to the course. Demonstrate effective ways to responsibly use social media to positively engage with others and portray oneself with authenticity.

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Looking to Excite Teachers with Coaching? Make It Voluntary

Digital Promise

Moreover, our Year 2 DLP research findings show a strong positive correlation between teacher perception of coaching as voluntary and teacher improvement in areas like content-based instructional strategies, assessment, differentiation, and classroom management. Because once that started to get out, it just spread.”.

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New Webinar: "Keeping Our Schools Safe: Reporting, Assessing, and Managing Threats"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Keeping Our Schools Safe: Reporting, Assessing, and Managing Threats A Library 2.0 + LearningRevolution.com Webinar with Dr. Steve Albrecht Please consider forwarding this material to colleagues or associates in school settings. OVERVIEW : School violence is not a “new epidemic,” as some news media still like to call it. in Psychology.

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

It alters the use of authentic assessments, how technology is leveraged, the spaces in which the learning occurs, the way educators grow professionally, how schools collaborate with the community, and the sustainability of the system as a whole. Actively apply what has been learned to initiate sustainable change and achieve efficacy.

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Fighting Fake News in the Classroom

Edsurge

This is particularly alarming because we live in an era when, according to Pew Research Center, 68 percent of American adults get their news from social media —platforms where opinion is often presented as fact. While Facebook and other social media outlets have pledged to tackle fake news , the results are lackluster.

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