The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The massive fight, it turned out, stemmed from a long-simmering rivalry between groups of girls, and had been largely instigated and planned through a steady stream of posts on social media apps like Twitter, Instagram, Kik and Snapchat. Mondays can be particularly contentious. Photo: Sophia Germer).

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Social Media Survey Report STEM 104

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Bringing Science to the Public One of Caitlin Light’s many duties as an assistant professor at Binghamton University is running the social media accounts for the first-year research immersion program, and students quickly had some advice for her: No one uses Instagram anymore. Will it come to play a role in college classrooms?

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Social Media Video Facebook Survey 159

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Ted Cruz on social media. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school. Traditional math proponents worried that the document would water down math instruction in California, hinder advanced students and make it harder to pursue STEM careers.

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Policies Data Study Course 134

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 6, 2021

Passwords are now required to access websites, banking, email, social media, favorite shopping sites, chat venues like iMessenger, and even certain documents. A study in the UK found that the average person has around 118 accounts. Why change passwords.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media Guidelines 223

EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Using Twitter in my classroom has certainly elevated my tech savvy status with parents as well as my instagramming 5th graders who have never known a world without digital devices. We live in a very social world, so why not use social media in the classroom? Only social media can deliver that.

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Mistakengoal.com

AUGUST 10, 2016

In this post I’ll discuss how we’re approaching the new outcome of “responsible use of the internet and other social media” that the faculty have added to the course. Demonstrate effective ways to responsibly use social media to positively engage with others and portray oneself with authenticity.

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Social Media Digital Citizenship Course Case Study 40

Neo LMS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Can you imagine what a student thinks when trying to study? Online ads and social media channels can be greater reasons for procrastination than the fridge or noisy roommates. Being online while studying can be very distracting. Even when having the best intentions, students can get off track when studying online.

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Social Media Learning Study Video 187

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2020

Passwords are now required to access websites, banking, email, social media, favorite shopping sites, chat venues like iMessenger, and even certain documents. A study in the UK found that the average person has around 118 accounts. Why change passwords.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media Company 222

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vickie Morgado on episode 177 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Instantly scan and score with any mobile, desktop or document camera. In her class, my class, and in another class, we used Twitter to communicate back and forth. Vicki Davis: Wow.

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Social Media Classroom Digital Citizenship Twitter 162

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

In fact, a study on Forbes found that global education technology (EdTech) is one of the fastest-growing segments today, and is expected to be worth $252 billion by the end of this year. Technology has vastly disrupted and improved numerous sectors around the world, be it the government and banking, or retail and marketing. Data Analytics.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Learning Analytics 246

Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2015

A good example would be how Facebook and Twitter have incorporated common like/favorite and share/retweet buttons. Users can also search and look for other users, as well as put a short bio on their LMS profiles, the same way Twitter and Instagram users can. And of course, features are also based on market trends.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

When black students at the University of Michigan took to Twitter several years ago to critique campus policies and culture , one tweet in particular caught the attention of college administrators. Last year, one student started a crowd-sourced document called “ Being Not-Rich at UM ” full of advice about how to get by on a modest budget.

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Laptops Analysis Advocacy Social Media 121

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 21, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter: @ JillDuBois22 Instagram: jilliande FB: jilliandee TikTok: JillDuBois22 www.linkedin.com/in/jill-dubois Web: www.impartedjoy.com. So when I was going to pass out the documents, one of my students said, “I don't think I have the right paper.”

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Course Classroom Twitter Elementary 458

Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 30, 2020

Leveraging social media to teach students has been a huge win for me in the classroom. I’m forever grateful that Tara Martin taught us all how to annotate text through social media. . Students watch you annotate over the document camera then try it on their own in a printed story with highlighters and some color pens.

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Google Social Media Facebook Course 101

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2011

Social media now makes it even easier to get all of this exciting information out to my stakeholders via our Twitter account and Facebook page. The following are some highlights from February: My Media Specialist (Linda Keesing) and History Teacher (Joe Manzo) collaborated recently to integrate Web 2.0 Perna and Ms.

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Adobe Facebook Social Media Report 189

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

For better or worse, many of us spend our idle minutes scrolling through Facebook , Instagram , or Twitter to see what’s happening in the world. We’ve learned how to curate what we see on social media to match our needs and interests. Bringing social media into our classrooms may sound daunting.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Classroom Facebook 45

edWeb.net

JANUARY 21, 2021

The presenters favor beginning the process of teaching students to identify reliable journalism by ensuring they understand and acknowledge quality journalism standards: sourcing, documents and evidence, minimize bias, fairness, transparency and accountability, news judgment, verification, and context. Join the Community.

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

The recently-added content empowers educators to create dynamic digital learning environments that support social studies, life and earth sciences, social and emotional learning, and more. When integrated into classroom instruction, these videos reveal for students the wonders of our natural world.

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Teachers and students can share their form via social media and ask for information from people anywhere in the world! History teachers can have students find the path armies took during times of war, and document how battles and stops along the way affected the area. If you have other ideas, share them with me on Twitter.

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Google Classroom Examples Data 102

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

(September 13, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today it has added new digital assets to its services that boost teachers’ ability to engage students in a variety of subjects including Science, STEM, and Social Studies.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

My education studies in the late 90’s included Computer Information Systems and English, two areas that my college advisor told me would “never go together.” Wrote out a Topic, Audience, Purpose document with TEKS. A recent example is the #studentsCANlead chat on Twitter. link] Follow her on Twitter! txtechchick.

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Handbook Conference Twitter Social Media 78

Technology Tidbits

APRIL 13, 2018

Edmodo - One of the most popular social media sites/communities around that educators are using to connect find resources and connect w/ peers, students, parents, and more in a safe educational environment. Plurk - A social network similar to Twitter (micro-blogging) w/ a timeline view and fun karma based platform.

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Edmodo Education Social Media Personal Learning Network 46

techlearning

JUNE 13, 2018

Study the Scientist profiles the roles of ornithologists, botanists, hydrologists, fire archaeologists, and more interesting science careers at Yosemite National Park. Each subject area includes primary source documents and activities, digital investigations, multimedia reference library, interactive maps, and more.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

At the recent ALT-C Conference in Nottingham (which I couldn''t attend) a very good question was asked by Renee Filius on Twitter: How can we enable true two-way interaction between lecturers and students that is not too time consuming? 2) One popular social media site - Twitter - is a different proposition entirely.

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Nik Peachey

MARCH 15, 2014

If you want to include specific words or phrases from a word document or PDF, you can also just type in the words or phrases you want to include in your phrasebooks, but if you save them from the web then Phraseum also stores a link back to the original source, so you can go back and see how the word or phrase is used in context.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When appropriate, students can learn to share their work through social media or sites like Youth Voices , extending their sense of audience, purpose, and genre that comes from a foundation of good writing instruction. Troy Hicks’ Twitter: @hickstro. Writable Twitter: @getwritable. More Writing Resources.

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Wiki STEM Strategy Twitter 98

The Electric Educator

JANUARY 16, 2012

The trouble stems from Apps that, instead of storing their help documentation locally on the device, pull in their help documentation from the web. Note: I understand that many educators are advocates of teaching students to browse the web safely instead of blocking access to social media and other potentially useful tools.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 29, 2015

When nine worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, West Virginia, were murdered on June 17, 2015, social media news feeds quickly filled with opinionated posts about the impacts, meaning, and historical precedents surrounding the event. that contributed to the Charleston attack.

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Social Media Digital Citizenship Twitter Policies 40

techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

RISD educators across the Berkner Feeder Pattern will use Discovery Education’s award-winning Science Techbook , Math Techbook , and Social Studies Techbook , as well as the Discovery Education Streaming Plus and STEM Connect services as core instructional resources supporting the “Future Ready: STEM for All” initiative.

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STEM Future Ready Education Social Media 40

Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are perfect for when you need to compare documents, are grading papers, or are doing research for a lesson plan or project. He’s written and co-authored several books on the subject and has spent more than two decades studying the fields of professional learning and instructional coaching. . Jim on Twitter. Jim’s Books: .

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Strategy Facebook Video Conference 101

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

These ambassadors recruit staff members to share their ideas using a bevy of communications tools including social media outlets, school websites and and the Lighthouse School’s reflections page. Pictures, videos, reflections—everything becomes an artifact to document the school journey. Tweeting, by contrast, is easier. “My

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Personalized Learning Strategy Case Study Learning 60

techlearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Their study is titled, Creative Problem Solving in Schools: Essential Skills Today’s Students Need for Jobs in Tomorrow’s Age of Automation, and covers a topic on the minds of educators I meet during my travels. They could use Spark Video to document the steps for solving a math problem. All opinions are my own.

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Adobe Classroom Social Media Common Core 42

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Social media curation efforts can help us fuel participatory culture as we build and connect communities. We study and understand our team members’ talents and we earn their trust.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

To harness student passion without bogging down in partisan muck, teachers are wielding a bevy of ed-tech tools — ranging from online role-playing games and issue quizzes to social media platforms where teachers share strategies for leading political discussions and students collaborate to try to influence public policy.

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Education Social Media Policies Survey 75

The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Last week I laid out 3 Untapped Social Media Resources for Teachers. This week we take a look at how to leverage social networks for students. She is right in the heart of the age range for kids who use social media the most (13-18 yrs old). Document their lives and share it with others.

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Social Media Resources Facebook Digital Citizenship 100

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Facebook, Twitter, and other social media posts people write for family, friends, or business. Business writers writing case studies, reports, presentations, and other documents. Grammarly for Microsoft Office offers real-time grammar detection when creating Microsoft Word documents or writing an Outlook email.

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Software Microsoft Comparison Report 59

techlearning

APRIL 19, 2018

New episodes of Science Channel’s Secrets of the Underground are now live in Discovery Education Streaming Plus and the Social Studies Techbook. Each subject area includes primary source documents and activities, digital investigations, multimedia reference library, interactive maps, and more.

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