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Trying to Ban Facebook is Not the Answer.

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. - From Pinecrest Preparatory Middle-High Administration Letter to Parents , February 22, 2012 When I first read and watched a news story about this Florida charter school''s letter to parents encouraging them to get their kids off of Facebook because of the problems social media activities were causing during the school day, it got me thinking.

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Build Community & Bring The World Closer Together with Group Insights

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For the past ten years I've moderated online communities in numerous platforms including Facebook, Ning, Yammer, O365 Groups and Teams, Edmodo and Google Groups. Mainly because that focus had a fundamental flaw: it didn’t push for any specific positive outcome from more connection.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

.” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”)

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

users moved from just accessing information and content to being able to directly interact with the content through commenting, remixing, and sharing it via social networks. also saw the development of social media which permits users to communicate directly with one another synchronously and asynchronously. With Web 2.0,

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Yildiz, Teacher Educator 2:00pm Edmodo – An Asynchronous Métier - Ms. Evelyn Wassel, Supervisor of Technology Integration Cultivating Transformative Leadership Skills Among Teacher Candidates in Global Education - Melda N. Amina Gorie Sindhi SPOTLIGHT - Content Curation as a Context for Teaching and Learning in Science - Eric A.

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10 Ways To Naturally Support Teacher Collaboration

TeachThought - Learn better.

Most schools now have online learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, and Edmodo are just a few. Create a social group just for collaborating teachers. But even schools without a full online component at least have web pages for the departments and the college itself.

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Reimagining Education: A Call for Action

User Generated Education

The learners in a self-directed learning environment where learner agency prevails: Determine what they want to learn and develop their own learning plan for their learning, based on a broad range of desired outcomes. Form their own learning communities possibly using social networking tools suggested and/or set up by the educator.

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