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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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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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.” 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

If you want to follow those tweets, you can either track the conference hashtag #ticalsls14 or you can follow the Learning Revolution Twitter account at @learnrevproject. Yildiz, Teacher Educator 2:00pm Edmodo – An Asynchronous Métier - Ms.

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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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

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77 million users accounts stolen from Edmodo. A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. More data collection will improve student learning and student outcomes. I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis. A file configuration error at Schoolzilla that exposed the data of some 1.3

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