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The Social Media Game Elementary School Students Should Be Playing

The Innovative Educator

Fortunately, my employer supports this and as such, we have been incorporating the voice of students in the guidelines around social media (You can see the teen guidelines at schools.nyc.gov/socialmedia ). Admittedly, I''m not much of a user of social media platforms for the under 13 set, so I knew I had a lot to learn.

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Imagining the Awesome Future of Automobiles

The CoolCatTeacher

Definitely, download the lesson plan and entry forms now. Entry Guidelines The U.S. Post on Social Media to enter to win some art supplies! Show us the cool cars that your students are drawing in your classroom on social media! Specifically, this art contest combines design thinking and the arts.

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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. It was definitely painted in the light that ‘these problems are in the past,’ and ‘America is the land of the free’ and ‘everyone is equal here.’ ”. Katie Cryan Leary, principal, Magnolia Elementary, Seattle.

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Wanda Terral: 5 Ways to Help Kids Understand Digital Safety Without Scaring Them To Death

The CoolCatTeacher

What we try to have our teachers do, particularly in our middle school where we are one-to-one grades five through eight is encouraging teachers to use the tools in the classroom and incorporate guidelines for how to behave as they’re doing these projects and using these tools. Give them guidelines for how to behave. Vicki: Yeah.

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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

The Hechinger Report

Generally, after an incident occurs or staff receive a tip — say, a student gets into a fight or posts on social media condoning the use of violence — a team uses a structured process to gather information, interview the student and witnesses, and decide on a threat level to assign the student.

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Bionic reading method: read like AI, think like a human

Brainscape

Hand-in-hand with our uncompromised access to too-much information and the ever-present distractions of technology, has come a shift in the way we consume information : from reading long-form content to quickly scanning through short articles and social media updates. The result? What do they look like? Are they a word?

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Offline and Off-Screen Activities for Minds-On Learning

Graphite Blog

Striking that balance can be tricky, especially when schoolwork requires a screen and games and social media are so compelling. Older kids could definitely do a more sophisticated version of this activity. In the classroom, design in groups to create a hole using some elementary physics. to be of service.