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Inquiry Hub Secondary School – Confluence and Influence

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Confluence and Influence – Inquiry Hub Secondary School. Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. This year over 2,000 grade 9 students took Digital Learning 10 in Coquitlam. Dave Rawnsley – Principal – Burnaby North Secondary School.

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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. Below are some of the ads that you may have seen on social media that were released as being traced back to Russian origin.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Teaching with Technology

Graphite Blog

How can digital citizenship lessons help me get the most out of teaching with technology? An established policy or set of guidelines for using apps, including social media -- whether you're considering it as part of your class or just to communicate with students. If so, what are they?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.

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Refreshing your on- and offline spaces with a bit of library eye candy

NeverEndingSearch

Social media inspiration. In addition to its wealth of instruction, professional development, interactives, video, toolkits and so much more, CommonSenseMedia offers Classroom Posters relating to digital citizenship, care and maintenance and more as download options. On historical thinking.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

When it comes to reading for pleasure, students have so many other competing interests available to them – movies, games, social media, and TV shows – that we need to aim to make it an attractive, conscious choice. An article titled “Social Media Practices and Support in U.S.