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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

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They can now send messages and files electronically and connect with students through social media. Additionally, social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram allow students to connect with other students and educators worldwide. One great example of this is the online classroom platform, Edmodo.

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Here's what you missed at the MidWest Technology Conference 2014 #METC14

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Fake twitter feeds. link] [link] [link] social media - @METCenews [link] Solution for a teacher Web site, assignment submission, and a dozen other things that we do in a dozen different ways, but all in one place. I co-presented two workshops this year. Have current events section to follow major news stories.

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The Social Learning Summit Is Tomorrow - Online and Free

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The conference theme is the use of social media and Web 2.0 Venable Social Networking for Social Good with TakingITGlobal for Educators by Kate Gatto Social Networking for Teacher Education by Leigh A. in teaching and learning, and the URL for attending is [link].

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Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

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Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. That’s newspapers, evening news, and anything considered ‘mainstream media’ They prefer blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. So why do students turn to it for news?

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

If you want to follow those tweets, you can either track the conference hashtag #ticalsls14 or you can follow the Learning Revolution Twitter account at @learnrevproject. Yildiz, Teacher Educator 2:00pm Edmodo – An Asynchronous Métier - Ms.

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Use Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

And then, not two days later, I heard Twitter has reclassified their app as a news purveyor rather than a social media device. Once again: Who gets news from Twitter? No surprise news shows are littered with references to listener’s tweets and presidential candidates break stories via their Twitter stream.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - May Is Ed Tech Month - Geo-Educators - Natural Math - Oxygen Masks and You

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

You can connect with the Geo-Educator Community through a variety of online platforms including Twitter , Facebook and the secure educator site, Edmodo. Participants will first learn about teaching students digital citizenship using a free K-12 curriculum aligned to Common Core Standards, available online or on iPads.