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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). The social media platform became a resource when I was running on empty.

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Safely Involve Students in Social Media and More Student Voice Tips

The CoolCatTeacher

Heather Callihan in episode 143 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Heather Callihan’s @ hcallihan students help with their Facebook and Twitter using some technology tools. Safely Involve Students in Social Media and More Ways to Give Students a Voice.

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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

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Here are the sixteen transformative tools, activities, and/or knowledge bases digitally-literate students should be comfortable using: annotation tool. digital citizenship. digital class calendar. digital databases. digital devices–such as laptops, iPads , Chromebooks , or desktops, for daily use.

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Digital Leadership with Students and Social Media featuring Jennifer Casa-Todd

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 124 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Jennifer Casa-Todd @JCasaTodd opens our minds to social media leadership with students. She argues that we’re limiting students when we don’t let them lead using social media.

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Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2021

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K-12 Digital Tools. 7 Authentic Assessment Tools. How to Teach Digital Citizenship in 3rd Grade. Oh–would you mind adding me to your social media links? Here’s where you can find me: Twitter: @AskaTechTeacher. An Open Letter to Teachers About Online Classes. Top Ten Misses.

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10 Ways to Use Twitter in Class

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For anyone who missed the April announcement, Twitter switched its app category from ‘social media’ (where it consistently ranked in the top ten with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Pinterest) to ‘news’ (now ranked #1, ahead of apps like CNN, Fox News, and Reddit).

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A Teacher’s Best Evaluator

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Students are evaluating teachers; they do that on social media and Rate your Teacher. When doing the assessment, I clarified to the students the purpose of the survey and emphasized that it had no bearing on their grades. He can be found on Twitter @T4edtech, Linkedin , and on his YouTube Channel Transformative Edtech.

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