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Is it Time for a Social Media Awareness Class?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Christian Miraglia, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has some great ideas on teaching kids about Social Media Awareness: Over the last decade, there has been pressure in the K-12 learning environment to create classes that address everything from managing your money to various efforts to address cultural inequalities.

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Digital Literacy Programs Prepare Students for a Tech-Enabled Future

EdTech Magazine

Kids aged 8–18 years old are in front of screens for seven hours every day on average, CBS News reports. With 95 percent of teenagers in possession of mobile devices, students are constantly sharing and searching through social media platforms. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out these top three elements of digital citizenship.

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How students can safely search the internet

Hapara

An internet search can bring up videos, message boards, blogs or social media posts with toxic messaging. . In 2018 the Pew Center reported that 58% of American teens had experienced cyberbullying. On the internet, it can happen through social media, online chatting, message boards or gaming apps. Cyberbullying.

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Will Banning TikTok Make Kids Safer Online? It’s More Complicated Than That

Edsurge

Ask just about anyone what’s behind the downward spiral of youth mental health today, and chances are that social media will be on their list of causes. The committee’s roughly 250-page report also made recommendations for governmental policies and future research on the topic.

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Ways to Build Media Literacy in Your Students, and Why You Should

Waterford

The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media. Today, social media plays an outsized role in how people get their information. Sometimes easier.

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Kayla Delzer: 3 Ways to Promote Student Leadership in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

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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Talking with Students About Shocking or Disturbing News

Graphite Blog

Tips on addressing news and current events in your classroom Kids often see and hear more of the news than we realize, whether it's at home, from friends, or on social media. From elementary school through high school, most kids don't have the news and media literacy skills to fully understand what's happening.