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11 Tips for Engaging Parents

Teacher Reboot Camp

Below are a few tips and resources from my presentation, Engaging Parents with Technology and Social Media. Every school needs a social media plan and guidelines. Check out how other schools use social media to inform parents. Feel free to download the slides. Twitter.com/NewMilfordHS. Enjoyed this post?

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

Learning with 'e's

Here''s a few ideas for you to consider: 1) Lecturers can make sure they maintain dialogue with their students through participation in social media sites. 2) One popular social media site - Twitter - is a different proposition entirely. Does technology provide any realistic, sustainable solutions? But be careful.

VLE 65
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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

This online monitoring includes tracking students' social media accounts, "listening" for menacing keywords and phrases. Schools using radio-trackers on students' ID cards and monitoring students' mobile phones to make sure they're in class. Who's cheating the time-clock, that is. Who's cheating the boss.

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Learning pathways

Learning with 'e's

The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learning without consulting the learner. The advent of social media, mobile communications and digital media facilitate large, unbounded personal learning networks that mimic the characteristics of rhizomes.

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