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Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Lightspeed Systems

Everything else pales in comparison. By effectively blocking obscene material on any device—even school-owned mobile devices used off the school network—Lightspeed Filter enables schools to meet CIPA’s requirements and other student internet safety regulations. Within K-12 education, there is no greater priority than student welfare.

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Digital Tools to Mobilize a Community to a Goal

Tech Helpful

I use social media to share the things I've learned via blogs to help others, I've asked people to join me at educational events like Edcamp Gig City and CoffeeEDU, I've asked people to support me in my JDRF walks to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, and more recently I've reached out to an entire city to help me find my lost dog.

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Highly-versatile, Easy-to-use Form Creator–and it’s free!

Ask a Tech Teacher

Everywhere outside of the education industry (which seems to focus on Google Forms), JotForm is the gold standard for creation of forms whether on PCs, Macs, or mobile devices. Once the form is completed, it can be shared via a link or social media, or integrated into DropBox, Google Docs, and many other popular platforms.

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Digital Citizenship: The Critical Call To Educate and Prepare 21st-Century Learners

EdNews Daily

Today’s youth are digital natives who are unaware of life without Internet access, instant communication, mobile phones and an abundance of on-demand information sitting in their pockets. Research shows that most youth use the Internet to view media outlets and to communicate with friends through social media applications.

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What is an animated ebook creator and which are the best ones?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Social media buttons. In comparison, a Reflowable layout is more flexible and is the standard layout for ebooks. It also allows you to optimize your content for Mobile devices, which increases flexibility. An ideal digital textbook must contain these elements: Compelling title . Attractive ebook cover. You May Also Like.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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Damascus Road

Learning with 'e's

Researching Social Media in Education: What can we learn? When asked, around 75% admitted that they had no involvement whatsoever with any of the social media or networking tools I was talking about. The most stunning comparison I offered was between the citations metrics of my two papers. was my challenge.