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14 Educator Social Media Accounts That Inspire Us

MIND Research Institute

While there is so much good going on— the ST Math Winter Waddle , several big edtech conferences, and the chance to reinvigorate students with math learning—there are also more hurdles than ever before. Social media can be an amazing tool for so many pu rposes. Twitter Educator Accounts to Follow. It's not just us.

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The Skinny on Hashtags

A Principal's Reflections

Upon getting on Twitter in 2009, I was not only baffled about how to use the social media site but also about all the symbols associated with it. Before Twitter I referred to this as the “pound sign” on the telephone and only used it as such. Let’s start by defining what a hashtag (#) is in the sense of social media.

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Learning and growing as educators

Neo LMS

While schools provide their own professional development sessions or teachers may have opportunities to attend local, state, or national conferences, the cost involved in attending them leads to additional planning and preparation for our students. Social Media. Read more: 6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions.

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Teens Now Turn to TikTok More Than Google — But Not for Schoolwork

Edsurge

Translated, it means that the video-based social media platform is biting into the search engine’s popularity. About two-thirds of teens say they have used TikTok with 16 percent of those saying they use it almost constantly, according to a recent Pew study of 13- to 17-year-olds.

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Learning Never Stops

A Principal's Reflections

For the purposes of this post, let’s put aside more traditional pathways that are either provided to educators or ones that are sought out, such as conferences and workshops. Personal Learning Network (PLN) Social media allows any educator to learn anytime, anywhere, with anyone they want. Just let me know!

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Minneapolis’ Aim Academy of Science and Technology Selects Discovery Education to Support Science and Social Studies

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 26, 2022) —The Aim Academy of Science and Technology in Minneapolis, MN, today announced it has selected Discovery Education — the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place— to support science and social studies instruction in all grades.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. 0:15 Big Picture Stats 0:54 Andrea Yon's story 1:24 World Literacy Foundation study of the economic and social cost of illiteracy Sponsor: Today’s sponsor, Literal is an app to help students in grades 6-12 engage with reading. Try the Literal App.