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Technology is Here to Stay: Now What?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Companies with a vested interest in their products publish studies touting their applications. Most companies offer such opportunities. Not only was I involved in the process, but I utilized student input via a brief survey. I found that the company was very active in recognizing and promoting teachers’ ideas.

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Kids’ Media Use Is Up. Blame the Pandemic — And TikTok.

Edsurge

Robb points out that the survey, which had about 1,300 total respondents, was completed in September 2021, just as many students were returning to in-person school—in some cases, for the first time in two years. According to the report, kids prefer watching videos on platforms like TikTok and YouTube to any other media.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Social Media

edWeb.net

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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Professors Try Teaching With TikTok. But It’s Not for ‘Boring, Lecturing Things.’

Edsurge

Officials in those states argue that the platform, owned by a company in Beijing, is a threat to cybersecurity, or they are concerned about spying by the Chinese government. teens say they use the service, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey , and TikTok recently surpassed Google as the most-visited site on the internet.

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Creating a Culture of Joy

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How about on social media? Blog [link] Twitter @shareski Instagram @dshareski. However, that's one of the issues that Twitter's got to deal with right now. Can we have joy in schools? I have them, and I'm grateful for them.

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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

You can do this by gathering a focus group of teachers from a district or school, by handing out surveys or by observing them while they work. A survey of 755 teachers in the US found that they value the immediate feedback they get on Twitter. Hundreds of teachers are interacting daily through Twitter, Reddit, Quora etc.

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Project Information Literacy News Study: A new study on new adults and news

NeverEndingSearch

The News Study findings are the result of an online survey of 5,844 respondents and telephone interviews with 37 participants from 11 diverse colleges and universities. The research also included computational analysis of Twitter data associated with respondents, as well as a Twitter panel of 135,891 college-age people.

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