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Top 10 Tips for Using Social Media for Administrators & Other Educators

The 21st Century Principal

According to Andy Beal and Judy Strauss, authors of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online , “Shifting from traditional to social media requires new skills, new tools, and an understanding of social media platforms.” Top 10 List for Using Social Media for School Leaders & Other Educators 1.

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Best Apps for College Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It’s a valuable tool for refining essays, emails, and even social media posts. It’s a proven method to improve productivity and focus, especially during long study sessions. Writing Enhancement and Assistance: Grammarly : Offers grammar and spell checking, but also style and tone suggestions.

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The Missing Literacies – Networking to Learn #iste2015

There is no box

We also used study groups to self organize around a specific course, topic or test. Enter Twitter and the rise of social media. These groups (or Personal Learning Networks) allow for just in time information requests, asynchronous collaboration and archived knowledge bases. Have you checked out an #caedchat lately?

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

If that seems too far fetched, just think about the number of jobs that was created in the last few decades, like social media manager, drone operator, mobile app developer, system admin etc. So as a result, we are now seeing more skill based educational practises in colleges.

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70+ Engaging Debate Topics for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Engaging students in debates around various topics will not only enhance their rhetorical and speaking skills, but will also develop their research competencies and expand their knowledge base. Should schools ban/allow access to social media websites ? Are social media websites making people asocial?

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10 tips for teaching critical thinking + information literacy

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Help kids analyze information not only in long-form articles, but also in the mediums they frequently consume, such as video, memes, and social media images. An example that I give all the time is when I was a social studies teacher, I never got past the 1980s. It’s not a social media problem.

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An article and a powerful conversation: two updates on code name FOEcast

Bryan Alexander

Through a variety of mediasocial media, movies. A digital knowledge base of aggregated media to stay ahead. Examples of proof of concept, case studies. Playing with things (hardware, software, practices). Related: play within a construct and objectives. Research on Gen Z.

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