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Is social media an effective tool for learning?

Neo LMS

There is this argument on whether social media and learning can coexist, because really, how can the noisy environment of social media become an effective tool for learning? A status update here, share a post there, Facebook basically owns the majority of our social media life. But that’s just the start.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. It can help you learn by giving you examples and thoughts. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones.

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How to build your global classroom in 4 steps

Neo LMS

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. For example, there is a much larger global conversation going on about recycling and reducing our use of certain materials. Some of them prefer to seek classroom collaborations directly.

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Toward Renewable Assessments

Iterating Toward Openness

For some time now I’ve been critical of “disposable assessments.” ” An assessment can be characterized as “disposable” if everyone understands that its ultimate destiny is the garbage can. Take an all-too-typical example: Faculty member assigns student to write a two page compare and contrast essay.

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7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork

Ask a Tech Teacher

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. Internet use.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

Military students for example may be serving overseas, or in submarines. Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’.

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Engaging Learners: Promising Practices in the Cloud

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Example: An early group created a spreadsheet with contact information for all of their classmates. Example: An early group created a spreadsheet with contact information for all of their classmates. Now the professors create a class wiki or site so all of the students can easily stay connected and in touch.

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