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

Mistakengoal.com

Part of that program requires (nearly) all undergraduate students to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and one of the resolutions updated some of the specific outcomes of that course. All FYS courses, however, are intended to have some common outcomes and it’s those common outcomes that the faculty senate updated.

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8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

This blog post includes eight use cases of Generative AI impacting classrooms and schools now. After explaining the case, I share the classroom and school impact and some personal classroom examples from my classroom. Let me hear from you on social media or in the comments if you have some awesome examples to share!

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

Below you will see how the course is structured as well as learner outcomes. The content is aligned to well over 100 research studies in addition to what successfully implemented innovative practices actually look like in action. As a result, an online course was created with the help of Participate. Anyone can register HERE.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. It enhances teaching practices, fosters professional growth, and significantly improves student outcomes. Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers.

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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

Edsurge

Tanner: I would say the persona of the course is what students are used to finding online, on social media platforms. We have lots of case studies and examples that really allow them to explore different concepts, such as one about bias that might be on TikTok. I call it “Gen Z curriculum design.” And so it can be done.

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IUT Conference 2018 – Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design

Learning Confluence

The outcome of this session is an academic paper (yet to be finalised!). tools shared via the Case Study of INF537 – Digital Futures Colloquium. technologies and social media. Participatory technologies like online social networks and blogging have become an integral part of open scholarship.