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For Some Students, #DeleteFacebook Is Not Really an Option

Edsurge

She says if she was still using Facebook groups, she doesn’t think the recent news about the company would bother her. It was difficult for her to say in the loop about fundraisers and meetings that her university would hold. Opting out of social media, he says, isn’t ever really an option for people.

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This Week's Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Sebastian Grady, COO of Altus Learning, will share stories from companies that are using video to capture critical knowledge throughout their global organizations. McLuhan (see the video) predicted we’d have to leave the bookworld behind to be “with it” in the electronic world but with social media we can do it all.

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Resources For Teaching and Learning During This Period of Social Distancing

MindShift

Rather than whole-class meetings, organize periodic video meet-ups with smaller groups of students to chat, check-in and provide help, support and assistance. The survey might also invite student recommendations of platforms, tools or viable social media that might be used to meet them where they are.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Mostly tutoring companies.). “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Badges , patents, and the world’s ‘least popular’ education company” by Doug Belshaw.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via the Phoenix New Times : “Meet the Creationist Helping to Change Arizona School Standards on Evolution.” “After the SAT make-up test was given this weekend, reports again circulated on social media that the make-up test included many questions from an SAT widely available in Asia,” says Inside Higher Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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