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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

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Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? Where did I turn?

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Effective Digital Citizenship Education

The CoolCatTeacher

Kristen Mattson on episode 242 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Digital citizenship education doesn’t work in a lecture format. Digital Citizenship that Works. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. Date: January 30, 2018.

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Schools must lead on developing digital citizenship

Neo LMS

I imagine they smile with bemusement as they simultaneously Google, Twitter and Snapchat below their desk, when a teacher proudly declares her lessons are now available online , or that she has created a group chat for the class. Schools must lead on developing digital citizenship. He said the role of primary education was.

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Here’s a Preview of February

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Websites to Enhance Social Studies. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Why Kindergartners Must Learn Tech.

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Public Domain Day and Happy New Year!

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According to Duke Law Center for the Study of the Public Domain, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2021 : F. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. –Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Every year, January 1st, is P ublic Domain Day.

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Starlink–What is it? Why use it?

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What is Starlink In a nutshell, Starlink is the brainchild of Elon Musk, the man who is the poster child for EVs and the current international leader in space flight, SpaceX (he also owns X/Twitter, but that’s a story for another day). Starlink is a satellite internet system developed by SpaceX.

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10 Ways to Use Twitter in Class

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For anyone who missed the April announcement, Twitter switched its app category from ‘social media’ (where it consistently ranked in the top ten with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Pinterest) to ‘news’ (now ranked #1, ahead of apps like CNN, Fox News, and Reddit). Establish rules for Twitter use.

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