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Here's What Happened When Students Solved Social Media Problems With Design Thinking

Edsurge

A few weeks ago, Aaron, a student in my high school elective class, mentioned he didn’t use social media very often. Meet some of the members of my Digital Literacy class, an elective course for students in grades nine through twelve. I’ll admit I was a little skeptical at first. But how do you hang out with people?”

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Scholarship Opportunity for Fully Accredited Online Courses

Teacher Reboot Camp

I’m excited to announce that on July 5th my two new online courses begin, Methodologies for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages , and Connected Educators: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Professional Development. Reasons Edtechnology Specialists’ Courses Rock!

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Scholarship Opportunity for Fully Accredited Online Courses

Teacher Reboot Camp

I’m excited to announce that on July 5th my two new online courses begin, Methodologies for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages , and Connected Educators: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Professional Development. Reasons Edtechnology Specialists’ Courses Rock!

Course 159
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How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing

Edsurge

Jeremy Hyler According to one Common Sense Media report , on any given day, around 60 percent of teens use social media, spending an average of two hours on platforms like Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, all of which are having a big impact in the way they engage with the written word. Is it quality writing?

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258: Have you started a conversation about social media with your students lately?

The Thinking Stick

Ready to get our new free guide “Exploring our relationship with social media”? Check out Jeff’s recent episode about parenting and caretaking with social media and healthy digital habits in mind, you can read it here. Click here and head over to shiftingschools.com to see our 70+ free guides!

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16 Free Resources for Schools Who are Closing Due to Coronavirus

The CoolCatTeacher

Listen to This Post I’ll also be sharing more resources this week on my blog, podcast, and social media accounts and in my newsletter. Take the course, Designing for Online Learning which is free. The course that starts today is full but they’ll teach it again starting next Monday. Today it is free. Learn more here.

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The Summer of Social Media

Kyle Pace

One thing that I think summer is great for in terms of professional learning is investing the time to better understand how you can use social media as an educator. Social media can be used as a great communication tool for a district, school, or a classroom. Google+ Communities. Blogs and blogging.