NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Alison Head and her Project Information Literacy (PIL) research team recently released the findings of a new national study on college students and how they consume and interact with a vast and deeply polarized news ecosystem. There are many pathways to news–not only on social media. Please share this study broadly.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Even so, data shows that TikTok is where students congregate these days. It’s a Language That the Kids Speak’ Shauna Pomerantz, a professor of child and youth studies at Brock University, in Canada, doesn’t make TikToks of her for classes, but she finds ways to play clips from TikTok in her lectures. “I Sixty-seven percent of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Just as educational experts acknowledge technology’s role in early education, physicians and psychologists also recognize that spending too much time immersed in computers, smartphones or social media can have a negative impact on child development. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. . .

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Social media channels provide the digital alternative for the “traditional” social life and support communication within online communities non-stop. They turn to other social media sites , like Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Yik Yak, or Twitter. Everyone is online now.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Should schools and school districts have a "social media strategy" like business and industry? In the corporate world, social media has moved from being a novelty to a deliberate strategy to engage the public. But if schools were going to be more deliberate about their social media strategy, what would they do?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 6, 2021

Passwords are now required to access websites, banking, email, social media, favorite shopping sites, chat venues like iMessenger, and even certain documents. A study in the UK found that the average person has around 118 accounts. Why change passwords. Passwords are critical to defending against identity theft.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. He''s having a whale of a time. The stories go on and on.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

In fact, a study on Forbes found that global education technology (EdTech) is one of the fastest-growing segments today, and is expected to be worth $252 billion by the end of this year. Data Analytics. there are more opportunities for students to input valuable personal data. 3D Printing. Blockchain.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Website: www.theaieducator.io Twitter: @ danfitztweets Amanda Fox Amanda Fox, is the Chief Content Officer for Teachergoals.com and currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. Is it helpful?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2020

Passwords are now required to access websites, banking, email, social media, favorite shopping sites, chat venues like iMessenger, and even certain documents. A study in the UK found that the average person has around 118 accounts. Why change passwords. Passwords are critical to defending against identity theft.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

The data that do exist point to some barely-there trendlines, fortunately. Social media, contrary to its reputation, actually seems to improve certain prosocial behaviors—empathy, to name one—in teenage populations. Scores actually improved the more the kids used social media. Hurtful or helpful? Like I said.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2017

A team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education has been digging deeply into social media data to examine the roots of the public dialogue around Common Core.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A study released by Proving Ground , part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found that students who increased their average weekly usage in ST Math practice show higher math test score gains compared to the matched comparison group whose use remained the same. October 3, 2020.

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eSpark

APRIL 11, 2022

Another study , by the National Communication Association, found that when parents and teachers emailed frequently, students experienced an increase in homework completion. According to a recent Gallup study , only 1 in 5 parents are currently involved with their child’s education.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

News headlines containing the NSA, Home Depot and Target a number of months ago, as well as the debacle of a bankruptcy case with ConnectEDU combined with a push by a number of parent bloggers, brought student data and concerns over privacy to the forefront. Resources: Data Quality Campaign (stat source) & Future of Privacy Forum ).

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Developers might handpick a select number of users and judging from how they the features, they can collect data, squash bugs and make the experimental feature available for general use. A good example would be how Facebook and Twitter have incorporated common like/favorite and share/retweet buttons.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2019, Mastercard commissioned a study to understand gender and generational differences surrounding perceptions and attitudes of STEM-based topics and programs. The study also explored challenges and motivations students cited for pursuing college majors and careers path. About Mastercard (NYSE: MA).

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A recent study released by Proving Ground , part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found that students who increased their average weekly usage in ST Math practice show higher math test score gains compared to the matched comparison group whose use remained the same. October 3, 2020.

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Securly

JANUARY 12, 2017

Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages. Federal law doesn’t specifically require schools to block Facebook, Twitter, etc. to create a good balance between recreational and study time.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 10, 2014

The following is a guest post by Michael Warren , a Social Studies Teacher at Hasbrouck Heights High School in NJ. You can follow him on Twitter at @mrwarren29. Like anyone who has followed this rockstar principal on social media (and he knows he’s a rockstar despite his humble protests) there is something happening at NMHS.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Even worse, no idea if they have good contact data on each and every of their students or not. Barrier 1-Bad Data In Means Bad Data Out -Some of those papers I had to fill out at the beginning of the year were the same green sheets my district has been sending home for nearly 15 years. But how do we know if that data is good?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. Student data privacy concerns, specifically, center on the misuse of personally identifiable information, known by its acronym PII. Even if being done in the aggregate, there are still concerns of misuse.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

It has evolved into the most prominent data scandals in Facebook’s history, after personal information from some 87 million Facebook was passed along by Kogan to the political consulting company Cambridge Analytica. EdSurge: How did you get into studying issues of data privacy and social media?

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Anne Collier on episode 169 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. So they looked at a whole range of research – lots of different studies – and that was the range of kids who were affected by it, in both cases. ’s new social media helpline for schools.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

(September 13, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today it has added new digital assets to its services that boost teachers’ ability to engage students in a variety of subjects including Science, STEM, and Social Studies.

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 18, 2017

My Maps allows users to import data into a map from a Google Sheet, KML file, or CSV file. Teachers can use a Google Form to collect data and then import the Form’s data into a new My Map. Teachers and students can share their form via social media and ask for information from people anywhere in the world!

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

The recently-added content empowers educators to create dynamic digital learning environments that support social studies, life and earth sciences, social and emotional learning, and more. When integrated into classroom instruction, these videos reveal for students the wonders of our natural world.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For example, a common concern among participants is how social media is transforming the kinds and sources of information students brought into the classroom. I was particularly disheartened to learn that many teachers turn to sources like Google, Edutopia, Twitter, Teachers Pay Teachers, and Pinterest for information.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The GaDOE Social Studies team had the foresight to launch professional learning communities on edWeb in 2016, so their programs were in place when the pandemic hit, creating a successful, sustainable solution for personalized PD before and during the pandemic, and beyond.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The GaDOE Social Studies team had the foresight to launch professional learning communities on edWeb in 2016, so their programs were in place when the pandemic hit, creating a successful, sustainable solution for personalized PD before and during the pandemic, and beyond.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Bill Demirkapi: I saw a little over 34,000 immunization records on Blackboard’s database, and it was concerning to see how much data the school had on a database, and what they trusted Blackboard with. He says he probably could have accessed more data. Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. At least he tried to.

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Edthena

AUGUST 29, 2022

Just like technology or social media can at times be distracting for students , turn off your own Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or even email to stay on task! a short passage from a chapter, an Educational Leadership article, a summary of a research paper, or an optional book study). C ut out unproductive behavior.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

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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techlearning

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This new collaboration enables PPSD’s educators to integrate Discovery Education’s Science, Math and Social Studies Techbooks into classroom instruction districtwide, creating dynamic digital learning environments for all students that will prepare them for life beyond the classroom.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Model and promote management of personal data and digital identity and protect student data privacy. As an active member of various Twitter chats, sharing my views on different topics is part of that community. Twitter has become my "go to" whenever I find myself stuck with an educational issue. Digital literacy.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

Character Traits – Sphero Hero, Megan Lowe’s class studied character traits with Sphero. For example, while studying the Olympics, students competed in their own Sphero Olympics. While studying “The Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan, my 6th graders Sphero painted shields. Twitter: @smilelearning. You can use.

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