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. Educator communities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Librarian Karen Scott challenges us with some non-traditional practices to get kids interested in reading including organizing her library by genre and using social media and graphics to inspire a love of reading.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The massive fight, it turned out, stemmed from a long-simmering rivalry between groups of girls, and had been largely instigated and planned through a steady stream of posts on social media apps like Twitter, Instagram, Kik and Snapchat. Mondays can be particularly contentious. Photo: Sophia Germer).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Translated, it means that the video-based social media platform is biting into the search engine’s popularity. About two-thirds of teens say they have used TikTok with 16 percent of those saying they use it almost constantly, according to a recent Pew study of 13- to 17-year-olds.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

So he decided to try to meet them where he heard they were happy to spend time — on TikTok. It’s a Language That the Kids Speak’ Shauna Pomerantz, a professor of child and youth studies at Brock University, in Canada, doesn’t make TikToks of her for classes, but she finds ways to play clips from TikTok in her lectures. “I

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2019

Personal Learning Network (PLN) Social media allows any educator to learn anytime, anywhere, with anyone they want. Book Studies Reading is such a critical aspect of one’s personal and professional growth. I have yet to meet an educator who does not see the value in reading to improve his or her craft. Just let me know!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

. “Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I consider myself well-versed in social media. I was an early adopter of Twitter and Instagram, and I remember anxiously waiting for Facebook to become available on my college campus. I've given most social media platforms a test run in my classroom and try to keep up-to-date on the latest trends, apps, and uses.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2019

Back in 2009, I began calling for an evolved construct of leadership that would better serve schools in meeting the diverse needs of learners and stakeholders alike. To account for this fact, I removed the majority of references to specific tools except for some of the most prolific ones such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. He''s having a whale of a time. The stories go on and on.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vickie Morgado on episode 177 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Then in college I studied screenwriting and moved to Los Angeles with my best friend to be a screenwriter. Raised in Spain, Ecuador, and Colombia, Ethan has studied at seventeen different schools and has worked as a teacher, curriculum writer, voice actor, motivational speaker, community organizer, and truck driver. Facebook. .

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Technology in the classroom may not have reached its full potential yet, but both teachers and students know there’s more to it than meets the eye. Social media channels provide the digital alternative for the “traditional” social life and support communication within online communities non-stop.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Arcademics: These multi-player games make building skills in math, ELA (English Language Arts), and social studies engaging and fun. Cram Jams: These educational, animated music videos are paired with instructional activities that transform language and grammar into something to sing about.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Friends and social media users began alerting her that images and material from one of her children’s books, “I Am Not a Number,” about a young Indigenous girl sent to a residential school in Canada and based on the experience of her grandmother, had made their way into paid lessons on the site that she had never seen before.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Discovery Education’s Science Techbook was certified as meeting the rigorous, evidence-based ESSA Tier III standards as set forth in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). In the second study, a correlation was found between frequency and depth of use of Science Techbook and student achievement in science in grades 6 and 7.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 18, 2022

For school, educators can now customize instruction to meet the needs of individual students, and they can communicate with parents and guardians more easily. They can now send messages and files electronically and connect with students through social media. In particular, it has a profound impact on education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Karalee Wong Nakatsuka ; Noreen Naseem Rodriguez ; Betina Hsieh ; @ericaintheclass ; Whitney Aragaki ; Virginia Nguyen , Michael Ida ); talking to each other through listservs or social media; or participating in digital conversations and programming (e.g.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

A Global Search for Education, Cathy Rubin, Post From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In the age of electronic media, a school could be everywhere, or it could possibly be nowhere. They may get on the bus at 4 pm but, once they are home, they are studying far into the night.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Website: www.theaieducator.io Twitter: @ danfitztweets Amanda Fox Amanda Fox, is the Chief Content Officer for Teachergoals.com and currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. Is it helpful?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Oklahoma City, OK —Students and teachers in classrooms across Oklahoma’s Millwood Public Schools (MPS) now have access to a host of dynamic digital resources supporting science and social studies instruction thanks to a new partnership with Discovery Education.

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eSpark

APRIL 11, 2022

Traditionally, students’ families meet with teachers just once or twice a year at parent-teacher conferences. Another study , by the National Communication Association, found that when parents and teachers emailed frequently, students experienced an increase in homework completion.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 10, 2014

The following is a guest post by Michael Warren , a Social Studies Teacher at Hasbrouck Heights High School in NJ. You can follow him on Twitter at @mrwarren29. Like anyone who has followed this rockstar principal on social media (and he knows he’s a rockstar despite his humble protests) there is something happening at NMHS.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ Commit to Leveraging Social Media and Telling Your Great Story! Districts having success in this area are committed to meeting families where they are. Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Over the past few weeks, in partnership with the Jefferson Education Exchange , IES staff has traveled to both Nebraska and North Carolina to meet with teachers and explore ways we can make IES’s research more relevant and useful. Special education studies and evaluation: $10,818,000. Ditto NCER, NCES, NCSER.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

Going to the Moon with NASA Hear Erica Alvarez, NASA Systems Engineering & Integration Manager for Advanced Exploration Systems, share fun facts about the Artemis mission, explain why it’s important, and discuss how studying the moon helps us better understand and protect our Earth. Twitter and? Linke d In.? .

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edWeb.net

MARCH 2, 2021

Belief in conspiracy theories offers simple and often-sensationalized explanations for events we don’t fully understand, meets unconscious psychological and emotional needs, takes advantage of vulnerabilities caused by stress, fears, and anxieties, and provides a sense of community. You can follow Eileen on Twitter @EileenBelastock.

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

The recently-added content empowers educators to create dynamic digital learning environments that support social studies, life and earth sciences, social and emotional learning, and more. Students meet two young pharaohs in ancient Egypt who learn core math concepts from a time-traveling robot.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The GaDOE Social Studies team had the foresight to launch professional learning communities on edWeb in 2016, so their programs were in place when the pandemic hit, creating a successful, sustainable solution for personalized PD before and during the pandemic, and beyond.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The GaDOE Social Studies team had the foresight to launch professional learning communities on edWeb in 2016, so their programs were in place when the pandemic hit, creating a successful, sustainable solution for personalized PD before and during the pandemic, and beyond.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

For better or worse, many of us spend our idle minutes scrolling through Facebook , Instagram , or Twitter to see what’s happening in the world. We’ve learned how to curate what we see on social media to match our needs and interests. Bringing social media into our classrooms may sound daunting.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Choose a time to meet every week, select a topic of study, do some research, and discuss what you’ve learned. The Ultimate Networking Tool: Social Media. When it comes to forming a PLN in the 21st century, social media is a must. No time to organize a meetup with strangers? No problem.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

I was reminded of this earlier today by Mark Anderson on Twitter, and decided the best way to relate the following story is to blog it (where I have more space). We got talking about why I was in New Zealand, our academic work, and then I asked him what he'd studied during his PhD. He had done work on the use of social media.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

My education studies in the late 90’s included Computer Information Systems and English, two areas that my college advisor told me would “never go together.” Students are involved in a teen leadership program created by John Maxwell called YouthMax meeting for a working lunch once a week for nine weeks. link] Follow her on Twitter!

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techlearning

OCTOBER 15, 2018

This new collaboration enables PPSD’s educators to integrate Discovery Education’s Science, Math and Social Studies Techbooks into classroom instruction districtwide, creating dynamic digital learning environments for all students that will prepare them for life beyond the classroom.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 4, 2015

During a multi-day workshop I was running in one of my schools a few years ago, we had teachers divide up in to curriculum teams to investigate and find resources for a unit of study they felt they were weak in. Many folks that you know through social media have boards there on a variety of subject areas. Then there are 2 rules.

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