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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The web is teeming with social and professional platforms where you can network with other professionals in your field most important of these platforms are Twitter, LinkedIn, and Researchgate. The sheer volume of data and information you come across online is overwhelming to say the least.

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10 Online Tools That will Make Your Students Better Researchers By @anttooley

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Your students will seldom find all the information they need in one database. When they do have enough information, they then have to wade through hundreds of pages of obfuscating language that academics love to use to get a couple of pages of useful material. He will be happy to meet you on Facebook and Twitter. .

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” Just 22 schools with running water and basic supplies will start holding informal classes today in an attempt to kickstart recovery.” Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. 2 Post at Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended. “ Elsevier Wants CloudFlare to Expose Pirate Sites,” TorrentFreak reports. Via Buzzfeed : “After Reporting Abuse , Many Twitter Users Hear Silence Or Worse.” ” asks NPR.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. I don’t recall if I talked about Elsevier when I wrote about platforms as part of my 2017 review. Anyway, here’s Richard Smith on Elsevier and “A Big Brother future for science publishing.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. More on legal settlements with for-profits in the for-profit higher ed section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Elsevier on “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing ?” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” Historian Angus Johnston posted a series of questions on Twitter about the claims made in the Teaching Tolerance report about what students do and do not know about slavery.