The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2016

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. While a recent poll showed 9 out of 10 teachers do not use social media in the classroom, there are teachers who are. Social doesn’t have to be a distraction and kids can be safe. ” Check out her blog for all the answers. .

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As physical distancing becomes a feature of students' everyday lives, social media has emerged as an important outlet for them to stay connected with friends and family. At the same time, not all students have access to the support they need to learn how to use social media in a way that's healthy.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

If you have never read his blog I highly suggest you do! My answers to Bill''s questions provide a snapshot of my social media in education journey. What made you interested in using social media to reach out to your school community? For me, Twitter opened the door to the world of social media.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Monitor Social Media Use: If your child uses social media platforms, familiarize yourself with the platforms and their privacy settings. Lead by Example: Model responsible online behavior and adhere to the same safety rules you set for your child. Discuss the potential consequences of irresponsible behavior.

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Kyle Pace

JUNE 7, 2017

This post is a guest post for McGraw-Hill and will soon be posted on their blog. . One thing that I think summer is great for in terms of professional learning is investing the time to better understand how you can use social media as an educator. You’ll find me sharing blog posts, resources, and tech tips there.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs. With powerful publication and distribution tools within reach, blogs remain one of the most potent ways to spread your ideas and thoughts. A Must-Read blog for us is one that offers interesting thoughts, unique ideas, useful information and remains regularly updated and active.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

From Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, retired teacher and education consultant, Christian Miraglia: Instagram: A Student Vehicle for Social Change. Here, the focus is how students use social media to advance their causes and concerns. We see action and change taking place in these students’ examples.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2022

This became increasingly important over the past decade as social media became the primary source for news. I also utilized the Civic Reasoning curriculum, which focused on developing critical thinking skills to navigate social media and news. Essential Skills. Guiding Principles. Ask students why the event is important.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with information as adults and as educators, there are still many untapped resources to learn from and share with and grow, especially through social media. If there is any doubt that very nearly everyone uses social media, let’s examine some stats from the Pew Internet Research Study.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In Part 1 of “ Why Every School Needs and AI Policy Right Now ,” I shared the empirical evidence about Artificial Intelligence and how it is impacting our world and schools. Generative AI Use Case #1: AI is built into social media.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. In 2015, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I added to in creating this short blog post. With that in mind, I started out with the more common, perhaps less exciting examples. An example?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2019

The drawbacks of social media are well-documented—like anonymous trolls posting negative comments just to spark controversy. In addition to negative commentary, Knowles acknowledged other challenges to adopting social media for education. Finally, for some there is a social-emotional toll.

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

Rahman explained, “The students brought up social media as the platform. When schools closed, Rahman’s students continued designing and sharing their social media campaigns. Sorrells, a math teacher in Alabama, also uses social media to connect students with authentic audiences.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. In this blog post, you’ll discover ten topics that can help you improve your online or blended classroom.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Please join Dr. Heather Johnson and me for one or both of our two Spring 2019 social media workshops for SEHD faculty and students! ]. As a faculty member who has an outsized social media presence ( 53,000+ Twitter followers ; video series with 100+ million views ; one of the top education blogs in the world , etc.),

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2017

Blogging is a popular tool used in education to not only practice writing, but reinforce collaboration, perspective taking, speaking/listening skills, and a lot more. Look at these reasons why teachers incorporate blogging across all academic topics and lesson plans: Collaboration. The roots of blogging lay in journaling.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter These conversations need to happen. The post TeachAI.org, a New Organization to Talk about AI in the Classroom appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. For instance, it is increasingly recognized that predictive policing companies regularly collect and utilize public social media data.” It seems obvious how students would be affected by something like bullying.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2022

Here are examples. Use a free WordPress blog, but instead convert the pages to topics discussed below. Here’s an example. Here are examples. An example might be: “Instruction is self-paced where possible, differentiated and responsive to student needs always. PorfolioGen. Unique aspects of you.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

I have also been blessed to observe great examples that members of my Personal Learning Network (PLN) make available on social media. Blog posts are a great option to get into the nitty-gritty of change. Links to your resources and work can be archived and annotated using a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo.

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The PL2C Blog

JULY 24, 2017

Social Media: every students’ obsession and every teacher/principal/district’s nightmare. But what if educators reshaped their perspective on Social Media, and created more intentional uses of these communication platforms that bear calculated weight? Examples: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

While many will vilify social media and focus only on the posts where folks are acting inappropriately or unprofessionally, social media is very powerful tool for connecting regular ol'' folks like you and me with experts in a field. Reading social learning social media writing'

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 13, 2014

Editor’s note: This guest post from Chris Casal started as a comment on “ Filtering social media in schools because it’s a ‘distraction’ ” which appeared on Scott McCleod’s Dangerously Irrelevant blog. Social media is no different than pencil and paper. Social media has no intent. It should be used.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 5, 2020

I follow book blogs and I am part of an online book club. The community aspect is a powerful strategy that can influence students to read more, through the power of example. The classic option is creating a blog, where students contribute with their own book reviews. A lot of my favorite authors are on Instagram.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

A Global Search for Education Reflection From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. While this blog is based on verifiable data, some readers may be unhappy with my interpretation. The hair on my arm prickled up like porcupine quills, but there was no breeze. Let’s dig in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Educators are the best! I'm collecting blogs of teachers who are in the classroom actually use AI and have practical, real examples to share. We can't let the fracturing of social media cause us to have conversations that leave people out.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is the Learning Pit metaphor? So a good example is I ask students, just will you write down your name now on a piece of paper? So this is an excellent example. How can this illustration be used with students to help them learn?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2021

Summary Broken into four parts, this book combines stories, insight from thousands of school visits, practical strategies, research, lessons from the pandemic, and examples from classrooms to assist educators in transforming their practice. Supplemental resources Over time things change.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As teachers, we all have assumptions -- and likely some opinions -– about teenagers and social media. This week, Common Sense is releasing its latest research report, Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences , a deep dive into the social media habits of American teenagers.

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Hapara

MAY 23, 2022

For example, this women of science internet activity guides learners to visit websites and search for information. An internet search can bring up videos, message boards, blogs or social media posts with toxic messaging. . On the internet, it can happen through social media, online chatting, message boards or gaming apps.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. So, in this blog post, I’m going to share 20 teaching areas that are relevant to distance learning and why these topics might be one you choose to take a professional development course to learn this summer.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A few years ago I made a shift to becoming a more connected educator by leveraging the technology available through social media. Social Media. There are different educator communities available such as Common Sense Educators , Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts , or Google Certified Educators , for a few examples.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Here’s some of what I wrote: ENGAGEMENT UDL Guideline(s): Recruiting Interest, Sustaining Effort & Persistence, Self Regulation Tool(s): Blogging platforms such as WordPress or Squarespace. One such tool for me when it comes to the UDL principle of Engagement is a blog. Similarly, the interactive nature of blogs (e.g.,

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 24, 2016

Is it shocking that I would use such an obvious click-bait blog post title? But this post is all about the difference between sharing what is personal versus private on social media. Why do people TMI share on Social Media? Never vent about school, administrators, or student frustrations via social media!

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As teachers, we all have assumptions -- and likely some opinions -– about teenagers and social media. This week, Common Sense is releasing its latest research report, Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences , a deep dive into the social media habits of American teenagers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Andrea Gribble will help school administrators and principals create a school social media strategy to drive engagement, build community, and enhance their organization's online presence. That's where this podcast comes in.

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