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To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media

Edsurge

This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”. They are all into it. Darren Ellwein.

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Teaching Using News Articles: Helpful Tips and Resources for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Unfortunately, a sizable portion of online news stories, especially those circulating on social media sites are fake news, false information, disinformation, misinformation, or downright propaganda. The visual is based on guidelines sourced from Facebook help center. Our students live in a world saturated with all kinds of news.

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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content. This is our routine every Monday.

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6 Ways to create meaningful teamwork experiences through an LMS

Neo LMS

That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning. For example, in a survey investigating the impact of collaboration in the learning of secondary school Statistics, one school found out that students had a 11.8% Shared resources. Grade team assignments.

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How Teachers Can Just Work 40 Hours a Week?

The CoolCatTeacher

When the year is up, they will never be charged again and will have continued access to the Facebook group and all club materials. They get an email when new content is added to the membership library. Angela Watson: The private Facebook group is where they can get help adapting the club ideas for their unique teaching contexts.

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It’s NOT About Google (Part 2) – SULS045

Shake Up Learning

I think back to the days when we had to do all of our research in the library with index cards and the good old’ Dewey Decimal System. Secondary students can use Google Scholar to find credible resources for their research projects. Google Books is a great companion tool for secondary student research. © Shake Up Learning 2020.

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On INFOhio’s light

NeverEndingSearch

INFOhio , Ohio’s PreK-12 Digital Library, knows how important it is to spread light–in knowledge and in leadership–by reaching out to the education community. Currently, school librarians are disappearing from staff lists, but recent national legislative actions have lit a new flame of hope in the school library windows.