Neo LMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A few years ago I made a shift to becoming a more connected educator by leveraging the technology available through social media. Social Media. Although I was quite resistant to create a Facebook or a Twitter account, once I did, my Professional Learning Network (PLN) has continued to grow.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 20, 2018

These needn’t be boring text messages, but via a bespoke app or even the school LMS , that can send gamified notifications of grades, points, results, reminders and notifications of shared content from other students. This study found that in 2017, 71% of teens claimed to either own or have use of a smartphone.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Can you imagine what a student thinks when trying to study? Online ads and social media channels can be greater reasons for procrastination than the fridge or noisy roommates. Being online while studying can be very distracting. Even when having the best intentions, students can get off track when studying online.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 20, 2023

This could include social media, email, websites, mobile apps, and learning management systems (LMS) amongst others. Leverage Social Media and Other Online Platforms This is where most people involved in education are divided. This can help keep your content relevant and engaging for your audiences.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 25, 2019

According to a study done by Symantec , apps with the most cybersecurity issues are lifestyle apps, which account for 27 percent of malicious apps. Some are through emails, SMS text messages, social media, and even fake tech support phone calls/voicemails. Music and audio apps account for 20 percent.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

PowerSchool is my SIS and LMS and is the sponsor of today’s show. Just share that love on social media. One of the big things that we would like to know is how many miles away you are from different people, so we’ve got a little map going for social studies. So much fun! You can make it as a whole group.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We have created the very first Learning Engagement System (LES), which is an evolution to the traditional LMS. Our focus addresses the staggering statistics from a recent Gallup study that found nearly 90% of teachers report feeling disengaged or not engaged at work.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

These ambassadors recruit staff members to share their ideas using a bevy of communications tools including social media outlets, school websites and and the Lighthouse School’s reflections page. This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

His work around the study of social and cognitive presence in distance learning contexts has been cited many times, and his research has led to a number of high profile keynote speech invitations around the globe. I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2019

When preteen kids see parents and older siblings thumbing away at social media accounts, they want to do it. There have been a few efforts to extend social communication tools to younger kids but mostly, kids don’t like them so end up on apps designed for teens or adults, like Snapchat or Instagram. It is a messaging app.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2019

Social Media: @alicekeeler, YouTube. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator and LEC Admin & Online and Blended certified. She has developed and taught online K12 courses as well as the Innovative Educator Advanced Studies Certificate (cue.org/ieasc).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I''m also a proposed panelist for "Education2.0 - Social Media Drives Student Success" being hosted by Jennifer Openshaw. The online study tool StudyBlue has launched a new Facebook app called " Friends with Brainefits." The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! Speaking at the Web 2.0

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

According to one recent study conducted by Pew Research Center , nearly 77% of Americans now own a smartphone of some kind – up from just 35% a few years ago, in 2011. Remember that as of 2018, there are 3.196 billion people using various forms of social media on Earth. More than that, there were 2.1

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? Social Media Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. ” Via Education Week : “ Textbook Costs Hurt Student Achievement, Study Finds.”

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… Via Education Week (from last Friday – as I work on the week’s round-up of news, I try to avoid looking at social media, but I think there was another school shooting this morning): “10 Dead, Most of Them Students, and 10 Wounded in Texas High School Shooting.” ” Finally.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their social media analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Yet, according to this study, nearly half of the donors have chosen to supply educational technology, far more than are building schools, providing basic books and materials or employing teachers. Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” And it’s getting worse.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. Via Motherboard : “ New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City.” iContracts has acquired the EasyCampus LMS from Educadium. ” William H.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Indeed, she’s quite methodical with her study – her inspection, introspection – of grief. Bush ), and the invocation of facts, evidence, and expertise in political arguments (particularly those arguments on social media) is now interpreted as bias rather objectivity. That famous Arthur C. Bonus: “ 5.3

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I first read an article by Seymour Papert in a Women’s Studies class in the mid 1990s – “ Epistemological Pluralism ,” which he co-wrote with Sherry Turkle. and Facebook Inc. Never forget: Bill Gates once called constructionism “b t.” ” ). “Hardly anyone,” either way.).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The stories out of Facebook just keep getting worse. I mean, I’m just glad that no one from Facebook is involved in education, ed-tech, ed reform, or education journalism. ” Via Chalkbeat : “ Students show up to school more often when they see ‘ familiar faces ,’ new study finds.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” Speaking of Peter Thiel, “ Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook fake news didn’t sway election,” USA Today reports from the Techonomy conference. ” “ Facebook ’s ‘Free’ Internet Will Harm Low-Income Consumers,” says Wired. .” Emphasis on “pays.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

I’m going with the full NY Daily News headline here (because, you know, NY Daily News): “EXCLUSIVE: Shocking Facebook videos reveal brutal ‘ Fight Club ’ run by Bronx High School of Science students (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT).” Via the Hechinger Report : “ For-profit colleges stay quietly on offense.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” “ University of Wisconsin System to Migrate From D2L Brightspace to Canvas LMS” by Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will offer a scholarship “to ‘cut through’ unequal access to opportunity.” Technology, Education, and the Media.”

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Hack Education

MAY 11, 2018

First Lady Melania Trump launched her “Be Best” campaign this week, encouraging people to be nicer on social media. ” The alleged cheating involved study materials posted to Quizlet. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Adds A.I. National) Education Politics. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. Deliverology".

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

This study says fix unstable housing, not schools.” ” Via The Sun Sentinel : “Student made social media threat to kill FAU professor, cops say.” ” “As Schools Comb Social Media for Potential Threats, Has Mass Shooting Anxiety Turned Administrators Into the ‘ Internet Police ’?”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” " The majors include sociology, media studies, and political science. Via Getting Smart : “ Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-Credentials Program.” ” LOL.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” ” That’s Tariq Ramadan , a professor of contemporary Islamic studies.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via the BBC : “ Facebook Reports BBC to Police Over Investigation Into Child Sex Images.” ” More on this story and concerns about how Facebook moderates content via Techcrunch. “When Social Media Assignments Increase Risks for Vulnerable Students” by Monica Bulger and Jade E.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

million to LACC – making studies for music majors tuition-free.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday ruled that instructors of religious studies may be excluded from part-time faculty unions at two Roman Catholic institutions.” in Afghanistan , Killing at Least 12 People.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

.” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Digging Deeper Into CCSF Story: $39 million for non-usage of LMS not really about DE.” LMS is learning management system. ” Via Ars Technica : “ Facebook already has a Muslim registry – and it should be deleted.” DE is distance education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill says this is the “price of faculty not using LMS.” ” Rather, it’s the price of deciding that “proof” of online education requires the LMS. Via The New York Times : “ Success Academy Buys Space in Manhattan Tower for 2 New Schools.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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