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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

Social media has not shown an ability to “self correct” perhaps because by its very nature, the responses can only be positive and thus, there is no self-correcting mechanism built into its algorithm. ” This means I can say, “I learned this at the War College.” Let’s dig in. Source: Wired.

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Inspiring Digital Leaders During Personal Learning Device (PLD) Rollout

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Our 3rd-5th graders all have their own personal learning device assigned to them at the beginning of the year. Should I just check it out and do digital citizenship lessons later? Should I go over the list of rules from the student handbook? Ready to talk about being a changemaker as we pass out personal learning devices.

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Social and Cultural Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Teaching and learning happen within cultural, political, and social circumstances. We must learn to negotiate those differences to better understand each other and our worlds, and to advocate for a better, more equitable future. As much as we want to deny it, we all have biases based on our life experiences.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like? What are the emerging technologies in a library?

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News Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

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.