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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

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Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. In library they are using stop motion technology to develop stories. Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. Social Media, Social Justice and STEM - Eric A Walters, Director of Technology Tikho''s Story: A Quest for Clean Water in Zambia - Natasha Sarkar, CAWST Youth Wavemakers Using VoiceThread to Connect Students with Science Content Specialists - Dr.

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News Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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News and politics have been reshaped by social media and 24-hours news entertainment. As a result, there's a lot of crossover between what we think of as news literacy, media literacy, and digital citizenship. Each newsletter also ends with tips on incorporating the content into classrooms. E.S.C.A.P.E.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. ” The Atlantic on what it’s like being a parent of a social media star.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. ” No.