Graphite Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

Social media is an increasingly important part of students' lives; in fact, the average teen spends over an hour a day using social media. To be true digital citizens, our students need teachers who model pro-social, creative, and responsible social media use.

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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. More on social media.

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Tech Helpful

JUNE 22, 2019

He told them to think of it like creating an Instagram post, but since social media is closed to students at our school, they created their posts using a slide deck. Your students may not have access to social media but you do. Their captions were full of written nuances that they gleaned from their studying.

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MindShift

JUNE 30, 2019

” — drew a link between negative trends in teens’ mental health and the rise of smartphones and social media. The young people in the study who were depressed didn’t use social media more often — but they did use it differently, sometimes to feel better. “It’s never the only reason.”

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

These shows are often short … only a few minutes and often these days are used as teaser episodes when doing early promotions on social media. Social Media. Social Media is also a popular way of promoting your Podcast once it has been published. Shure SM7B. Provide An Incentive For Signing Up.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device: Please click this URL to start or join. Guidelines on how to take part and the tasks to be solved and the digital products to create will be shared. DIRECTIONS: Participants will go to the URL and follow directions through flipgrid.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Administrators, teachers, and students need guidelines to understand how multimedia creation amplifies the foundational literacies of reading and writing, in addition to visual and verbal communication skills. You’ll find that today’s social media is doubling down in the storytelling space. How might you use the S.T.O.R.Y.

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