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‘Dear Mr. Zuckerberg’: Students Take Summit Learning Protests Directly to Facebook Chief

Edsurge

On Thursday, hoping to send a stronger message, they took it all the way to the top, with a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning. Below is the full text of the email the students sent to Facebook’s chief executive.

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Using Facebook ‘Live’ In The Classroom Is A New, Exciting Learning Tool.

EdTech4Beginners

Facebook Live allows you to stream live video to a Facebook Page or Group. You must use a mobile device (Android or Apple) and the Facebook App needs to be installed. Here are a few opportunities for Facebook Live which I thought of: Sports activities / events i.e. football matches. How do you ‘Go Live?’

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Using Facebook ‘Live’ In The Classroom Is A New, Exciting Learning Tool.

EdTech4Beginners

Facebook Live allows you to stream live video to a Facebook Page or Group. You must use a mobile device (Android or Apple) and the Facebook App needs to be installed. Here are a few opportunities for Facebook Live which I thought of: Sports activities / events i.e. football matches. How do you ‘Go Live?’

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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Facebook: [link]. Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Facebook: [link]. Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Facebook: [link]. Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Facebook: [link]. Lindy Hockenbary.

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How Parents Can Help Kids with Math: 5 Tips that Work

The CoolCatTeacher

Jon Orr – bio as submitted Jon is a math teacher at John McGregor Secondary School in the Lambton-Kent District School Board in Ontario Canada. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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When embracing the ‘science of reading,’ we can’t leave out older students

eSchool News

Since my first day of teaching middle school, the “science of reading” — tying reading proficiency to explicit phonics instruction in addition to comprehension work—became a catchphrase for Facebook groups, professional development, and curricula. I want more for these students.

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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. When my students would ask me how many followers I had on my Facebook account and Twitter, I stated I did not know. I would note I had no idea on my Facebook account, but maybe 500 on my Twitter account, and most of them are teachers. .

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