The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

From student-led social media to students calling parents with score reports and student-led conferencing, these three ideas can help empower students in your classroom. Just for one example, we have student-led social media accounts in our classroom. Student-led social media accounts. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others. How Vickie Morgado Uses Social Media in Her Classroom. Step 1: Teach Digital Citizenship. We’ve traveled the world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

Britt: In my classes, I’m using strictly a Blackboard LMS and I’m using Twitter, which I felt was a less onerous use of social media for classroom conversations. You have to prove to me that it’s worth using Facebook, or any social media, for that matter. You and I have both been in social media now for a decade.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

The engine of a PLN is social media. refer to it in your social media. always answer questions and acknowledge comments that show up on your social media accounts. Keep your social media focused on those topics. Keep your social media focused on those topics. Participate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 4, 2018

Safe experiences with monitoring and support can help children understand digital safety. In today’s show, Wanda Terral talks about how to help kids understand digital safety. How do you try to model digital citizenship, like helping them resolve issues when there are problems? Sign up at www.coolcatteacher.com/netref.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

If you’re familiar with the SAMR Model, you know it refers to the way technology tools can be used to enrich classrooms. The app includes no in-app purchases, no social media connections, and no advertising. It can be filtered by type (activity, model, or sequence) and grade (from elementary to higher education).

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2018

She had spoken to a bunch of the students in the city system and asked what would speak to them, what they would want as material to learn about digital citizenship. So I started with her, creating the social media guidelines for the New York City Department of Education. They don’t want to read books or brochures.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The book is broken down into four general parts: Classroom Procedures, Classroom Rules and Expectations, Teaching Tips & Strategies, and Partnering with Parents - and it tends to lend itself as a reference. The authors do suggest it be placed on the shelf and pulled out from time to time.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The internet has no shortage of dubious information; and the ability to evaluate health and science claims is a subset of media literacy. With the abundance of health/science content students may only see via social media, kids are ill-equipped to discern hype from real science. START EARLY. BREAKING DOWN THE FACTS.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

You can also bookmark this list as a resource and refer back to it throughout the year. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. The organization’s blog offers useful insights and advice on classroom technologies, digital citizenship, personalized learning and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Like it feels like it’s on every social media platform, everywhere they go at school, and they don’t feel like there is an escape. If I couldn’t have gone home and petted my dog and been away from it, I don’t know how I would have made it — with social media and not being able to get away from it.

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Buncee

AUGUST 26, 2019

Print out their posters for more meaningful anchor charts in your classroom to which you can refer time and time again when the going gets tough. Social awareness: . Although the current layout may be geared toward elementary, the design could easily be adjusted for older students. This is too hard. I’m not good at. I’m stuck.

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Buncee

AUGUST 26, 2019

Print out their posters for more meaningful anchor charts in your classroom to which you can refer time and time again when the going gets tough. Social awareness: . Although the current layout may be geared toward elementary, the design could easily be adjusted for older students. This is too hard. I’m not good at. I’m stuck.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. That’s newspapers, evening news, and anything considered ‘mainstream media’ They prefer blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. So why do students turn to it for news?

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 28, 2020

I like to refer to this as an expanded audience. They will need those digital citizenship skills! Mystery Hangouts are particularly great for elementary grade levels. Post your answer to your favorite social media platform using the hashtag #ShakeUpLearning, or share it in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook !

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

And then, not two days later, I heard Twitter has reclassified their app as a news purveyor rather than a social media device. No surprise news shows are littered with references to listener’s tweets and presidential candidates break stories via their Twitter stream. Once again: Who gets news from Twitter?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. This is not necessarily something you might teach in a classroom, but it’s certainly something that’s relevant to every student and every teacher in our schools, and that’s social media.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

this CNN The Daily Show where Trevor Noah interviews Greta Thunberg: [link] and this screen shot from the interview, which is trending on Facebook: [link] Reference Stevens, V. I sometimes refer to the process as decolonizing education. Connectivist Learning: Reaching Students through Teacher Professional Development. In Son, J.-B.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Purnendu Chatterjee MAD Day from Syria Makes A Difference - Samah AlJundi Maintaining Bridges to Swaziland Via Social Media - Susan Jacques Pierson, Ph.D. Wednesday, November 19th ( US-Eastern Time ) 1:00am Globally Connecting Classes through Interactive Learning Objects - Ezra Samantha M. Pedro Néstor Ibáñez Lic.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

Has technology and social media been an impediment or impetus for civic activism? Part of the reason that we teach technology and digital citizenship is to model prosocial behaviors and explain the risks that occur when we don’t. Today’s students have social media and stay aware. Unequivocally yes.

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