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Practical examples of social media in elementary school

The Innovative Educator

Here is how we use it at PS 10 Webpages and wikis - Teachers have class webpages and wikis to help foster the home-school connection. Twitter - Blog posts, wikis and web pages are great, and the time invested is well worth it, but sometimes there are great things happening in class that deserve to be shared immediately.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). It can be used to generate responses to user input, initiate conversations, and provide information and assistance to users in a chatbot setting. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues.

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Courage to Be an Outlier Educator

User Generated Education

” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage. I have been an outlier educator in a number of educational settings including elementary and college levels. The only time I did so was to provide short snippets of information as mini-lectures, ten to twenty minutes in length, or to provide information about how to do the class activity.

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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders.

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Mobile Connections and Resources

The Mobile Native

SIGML Wiki @sigml SIGML is an ISTE special interest group for mobile learning. This wiki provides mobile learning resources, webinars, discussions and a place to connect with other educators. Check the chatrooms page for date and time information. These resources range from elementary to higher ed.

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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

Teachers prior to the Internet, as we know it today, were one of the primary gatekeepers of information. Other than libraries and news outlets, students were dependent on the educator to provide them with information. Education 1.0 was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. Education 1.0:

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Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

instead of being openly accessible via a blog, web site, wiki, etc. Girls Scouts – all girl Lego leagues, Engineering is Elementary – girls are empowered – Flying Monkeys prosthetic device patent! Wish this wasn’t locked down behind AEA PD Online (with quizzes!) Breakout group questions. Closing Remarks , Lt.

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