Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Whether you teach elementary, core subjects or electives, making digital citizenship part of your instruction is essential for all of your learners. Read on for digital citizenship activities you can use in elementary, middle school or high school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 5, 2021

Written by “Karen Weaver a 3rd grade elementary school teacher and author of the upcoming children’s book “The Magic Pencil”, it covers all the basics. A recent study involving almost 600,000 children and adolescents found that over 65.3% One study showed the effects of habitual computer use in adolescents.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Which students get to attempt intellectually stimulating courses like calculus may rely in part on where they attend high school rather than just their aptitude for math, according to a new study. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

and the kids agree as studies have indicated. Engagement is strong at the end of elementary school, with nearly three-quarters of fifth-graders (74%) reporting high levels of engagement. Gallup has conducted more than 5 million surveys with students in grades five through 12 over the past several years.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I consider myself well-versed in social media. I've given most social media platforms a test run in my classroom and try to keep up-to-date on the latest trends, apps, and uses. Educators tend to meet most social media platforms with skepticism, and it's easy to see why. This goes the other way too.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2024

Homework Hacks Course – Created by Brian Page, this course offers students strategies for effective studying and learning. Brown – Provides insights into science-based study techniques. “ Powerful Teaching ” – Explores evidence-based strategies for teaching and learning.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It should be no surprise that studies show engaged students retain more of what they have learned. This is just as true for the elementary classroom as it is for the lecture hall. A six-year study of students at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State is a case in point.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Social media channels provide the digital alternative for the “traditional” social life and support communication within online communities non-stop. They turn to other social media sites , like Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Yik Yak, or Twitter. Everyone is online now.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

. “Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Learners will study geography and contributions of both civilizations, while also reading poems and folktales. Third grade language arts – “Native American Stories” This elementary digital textbook has ten 80-minute lessons, which can be broken up to fit shorter class sessions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Roughly 3 in 10 Gen Z teens say that gaming is their favorite form of entertainment, according to a Deloitte study , and 70 percent say that gaming provides social and emotional benefits because it helps them stay connected to others.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Pedro Noguera is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. His research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts. The Future of Social Media?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

There’s no shortage of recent and frightening stories and studies about the state of our children’s mental health, from degraded attention spans and poor impulse control to decreases in empathy and significant rises in depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. Social media and other platforms are tunnels.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Five principles underlying heutagogy Learner agency Self-efficacy and capability Metacognition and reflection Nonlinear learning Learning how to learn The origins of heutagogy Steward Hase and Chris Kenyon, who defined heutagogy as the study of self-determined learning in 2000, name it an optimal approach to learning for the 21st century.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

Recently I observed a great example of this during a coaching visit with Kay’s Creek Elementary School in Farmington, UT. They provide a defined framework for studies in well-defined, career-focused areas directly connected to university majors and workforce need. Their theme focused on global goals for sustainable development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

00:01:25:09 – 00:01:50:19 Debbie Tannenbaum This is my 25th year in education, my sixth year as a tech coach, and during my first year as a tech coach, I'm in elementary school. So tell us a little bit about your journey. I was getting super frustrated because I felt like I could never help all my kids.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

They’re looking for role models, a sense of community, and plainly enjoy stories in a variety of media. Anyone who studied at least a little bit of Psychology knows that students retain information better when they make a connection between a concept and their personal stories. Digital storytelling is no different.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Since 1999 there have been over 300 violent tragedies that have played out from college campuses to elementary schools, and 320K students have been exposed to gun violence. While instances of school violence are on the rise, there is strong evidence to suggest that upstream violence prevention is what’s needed to curb this trend.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I teach gifted students at two Title 1 elementary schools. Internet accessibility, technologies that permit the user-generated media, and social media allow for unlimited potential for learner choice and voice. The use of Destination Imagination (DI) has been recommended by my supervisor for use with gifted students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Considering what the 24-year-old shares in the video about her experience as a climate activist and former environmental studies student in college, the need for a heads-up becomes apparent. “As And ironically my therapist said, ‘I get a lot of you environmental studies majors in here,’ and she was very happy that I came to see her.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide. Both the TEKS-aligned Mystery Science and the Social Studies Techbook are accessed through the Discovery Education platform. . All CCISD educators enjoy access to the Discovery Education Community.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

in this post, I share with you my perspectives, drawn from my experiences as a blogger, educator, and academic with a PhD in educational studies, on what constitutes the quintessential characteristics of 21st century teachers. In their quantitative study of over 300 Finnish first graders, Nurmi et al., Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al.,

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 16, 2019

One resolution my elementary students and I are setting is to be more healthy with our digital use. Choose from several different classes, such as Connected Educators: Harnessing the Power of Social Media and Methodologies for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. I teach technology to 450+ second to fifth graders.

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techlearning

APRIL 27, 2018

This post includes a handful of Adobe Spark activities for elementary students! 10 Tips for Using Social Media to Tell Your School’s Story ] Students can captures animal facts using Spark Video. On each slide of Spark Video students can add an image related to an animal they are studying.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 15, 2019

The media loves sensational tech stories. Except that it was based on a faulty study , which essentially renders it as fake. At the same time, social media platforms can have a good or bad impact on mental health depending on how they are used. Did you notice any improvements in sleep, socialization etc.?

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others. How Vickie Morgado Uses Social Media in Her Classroom. We have connected with different classrooms. We’ve traveled the world. It was fun!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In Common Sense’s 2018 study Social Media, Social Life , more than 1 in 10 teen social media users (13 percent) reported having “ever” been cyberbullied, and nearly two-thirds (64 percent) “often” or “sometimes” reported coming across racist, sexist, homophobic, or religious-based hate content in social media.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As conspiracy theories spread across social media and misleading news stories are shared in internet echo chambers, educators across the country – and the world – are trying to battle misinformation by teaching students to be better consumers of news, media and data. Related: Getting schooled in social media.

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Securly

JANUARY 12, 2017

Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages. Some schools leave social media open, some schools restrict access, etc. to create a good balance between recreational and study time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

And separate international studies of 15-year-olds and fourth graders indicate that eighth grade reading habits aren’t telling the whole story. Perhaps reading posts on social media and clicking on article links in Google searches are useful types of reading too. First, the numbers.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

This message has perhaps been clearest on social media, where many parents overseeing their children’s educations are suggesting teachers be paid more.) A Simple Note Is All It Takes Susanna Stratford, third grade teacher at Maple Hills Elementary in Renton, Wash.: See more: Want to Show Teachers You Appreciate Them? We hear it!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

So, if you take the challenge from this episode, share what you do and tag me – @coolcatteacher on the social media of your choice and lets level up together. She conducts workshops in elementary schools and hopes to educate children about kindness when they are still young.

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eSpark

APRIL 11, 2022

Another study , by the National Communication Association, found that when parents and teachers emailed frequently, students experienced an increase in homework completion. In fact, high school students whose parents “monitor their academic and social activities… have higher rates of social competence and academic growth.”

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2024

But to compete with TikTok, social media and talking to their friends makes it that much more difficult. I teach math and art, but I also teach kids how to disagree in a healthy way, how to handle stress, how to communicate effectively, how to read and write, how to engage in the world we live in and how to manage social media.

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