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Common Sense Media digital citizenship refresh

NeverEndingSearch

Sexting: Common Sense Media is now aging the topic down with a new lesson and video addressing the issue for middle school. Fake news (news and media literacy): addressing the research that young people often get their news from social media rather than news outlets. How does social media affect our relationships?

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Social media curation efforts can help us fuel participatory culture as we build and connect communities. What’s curation? Curation is a funny word. Curating with kids. or Paper.li

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Technology Integration, 1 to 1, and Student Centered Learning… Ten Free Resources and Tools

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Highlights : Social Media Templates, Museum Box, Graphic Organizers. Google Lit Trips. About : Using Google Earth to bring an authentic reading experience through literature. Student Centered : Instructional materials shows student how to make their own trip. About : Numerous tools for digital creation.

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Google Document URL Tricks

Learning in Hand

G Suite apps include Google Documents , Sheets , Slides , and Drawings. Preview Link Share a clutter-free view of your document → Replace /edit with /preview Publishing what’s created in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawings as a Preview link presents the document without menu bars and buttons. Don’t worry about them.

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Not “Just” a Teacher: Finding Your Voice as a Teacher

The CoolCatTeacher

And so, they reached out to myself and Carl Hooker , another one of our proud Texans, and asked if the two of us would go and testify in front of the Senate, in front of the legislature, on educational technology and Open Education Resources and instructional materials. And so it’s really interesting.

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The Dilemma of Entrepreneurial Teachers With Brand Names

Edsurge

And she recommends their wares to thousands of teachers who follow her on social media. “I Now with the internet and social media, there is far more evidence of entrepreneurial teachers documented in blogs, Facebook postings, and start-up businesses. I will embed it in my brand every day,” Ms. Delzer said of Seesaw. “I

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Texas , a Prized K–12 Market , Approves Wave of Instructional Materials.” ” Via The Sun Sentinel : “Student made social media threat to kill FAU professor, cops say.” Google has acquired lesson-provider Workbench. The Business of Financial Aid.