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Every Teacher’s Must Have Guide to Facebook. Want to connect with your students in and out of the classroom?

Every Teacher’s Must Have Guide to Facebook

Consider bringing Facebook into your class as a collaborative tool. We all know that most kids, or at least those in the pre-teen and up category, are locked into many forms of social media. Instead of fighting it, why not meet them where they are, and use the benefits of Facebook to communicate and increase involvement? Edudemic sur Twitter : "Twitter 101: A 5-Step Guide to Using Social Media for Edu @Landofabe #teachsocial #socialmedia. Twitter 101: 5-Step Guide for Social Media in Education. How to get better grades with social media. Eight alternative social media tools you should consider. Eight alternative social media tools you should consider. It's Official: Using Twitter Makes Students More Engaged. Further affirming what you probably already know, Twitter is evidently one of the best tools for learning and becoming an engaged student.

It's Official: Using Twitter Makes Students More Engaged

We’ve covered the benefits of the social network ad nauseum for teachers and administrators over the past few years … but a new study solidifies the worth of Twitter for students. Assistant Professor of Education at Michigan State University, Christine Greenhow, conducted a study titled “Twitteracy: Tweeting is a New Literary Practice.” In it, she found that college students who tweet as part of their instruction are more engaged with the course content, the teacher, other students, and they have higher grades. “Tweeting can be thought of as a new literary practice,” said Greenhow, who also studies the growing use of social media among high-schoolers. “It’s changing the way we experience what we read and what we write.” 10 Social Media Mistakes You're Probably Making. Social media.

10 Social Media Mistakes You're Probably Making

Connecting teachers. Intriguing students Offering resources. Cataloguing information with hashtags. Streamlining information consumption. Awesome, right? 6 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2014. When the clocks flip and 2013 becomes 2014, some things may change.

6 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2014

One that probably won’t is that you’ll still be using social media in your classroom. We know that technology and trends are changing all the time, so what will 2014 hold in store for social media? The handy infographic below takes a look at 6 trends and predictions for social media in the new year. While it is somewhat geared towards businesses, each one has implications in both the classroom and for personal use as well. How To Use Instagram In The Classroom. We’ve shared a lot of different ideas here on how to integrate different forms of social media in the classroom.

How To Use Instagram In The Classroom

From Facebook to Twitter and Pinterest , there are a ton of educators out there who are harnessing their students’ existing interest and knowledge of these social media tools to engage them in learning activities in the classroom. The handy infographic below (Via: librariansonthefly.blogspot.com) shows a number of different ways to employ another popular social media tool in the classroom and library: Instagram . It does offer you more than just fun filters for your photos! 25 Ways Teachers Can Integrate Social Media Into Education. This Is How Teens Are Using Social Media. All of us old-ish folks that didn’t grow up with hand held technology from the time we were just getting into big-kid beds sometimes ponder that children now enter the online world at a much younger age than we did.

This Is How Teens Are Using Social Media

The Student's Guide To Proper Social Media Etiquette. If you’re like me, you act differently on different social networks. You share certain things on Facebook that you wouldn’t share on Twitter. You post stuff on Pinterest that you wouldn’t post on Path or share on instant message. The Beginner’s Guide To Facebook. 5 Free Online Courses For Social Media Beginners. Whether you’re new to technology, just getting started with a social network, or looking for some useful tips then these courses are for you.

5 Free Online Courses For Social Media Beginners

They’re part of a new idea that I’ve been working on with a few friends. We’re calling it Modern Lessons and it’s essentially a ‘Khan Academy for real-world skills’ where a small handful of people build free online courses designed to help you learn some important things. But it’s more than just a few useful videos about Twitter. There are customized certificates, quizzes, prerequisites, and more. But that’s not important. NewsWise. A Learning Hub to help educators, parents, (and kids!)

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Understand and use digital media safely and wisely Learn how to keep kids safe online. Take a course and receive a FREE Parents' Guide to Digital Literacy. Since it's smart to be CyberWise, we constantly research and deliver the latest and most relevant news about digital media and learning for you. Information on this page is updated every other week. Missed Last Week's News? Follow us on Twitter @BeCyberWise and sign up for our daily edu-paper The CyberWise Daily to get up-to-the-minute news on digital topics and trends sent directly to your email! The 36 Rules Of Social Media. The 22 Milestones Of Education Technology. How Teachers Can Best Use Education Technology 8.67K Views 0 Likes Edtech isn't the final solution for education's problems.

It's a powerful addition to classrooms though, so it's time to ask: what is the point of education technology? The Current State Of Technology In K-12 8.12K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? The 10 Best Web Tools For Flipped Classrooms. While flipping the classroom is still one of the hottest trends in education, it’s got nothing on time-saving and downright useful apps and web tools. In an effort to provide a quick look at some of the best web tools for flipped classrooms, I thought it would be useful to poll the @Edudemic Twitter followers . Including the tweets, I also got at least 40 emails from friends, colleagues, and administrators from around the world.

The Characteristics Of A Successful Online Student. 10 Ways To Become A Better Online Learner 9.63K Views 0 Likes There are some quick and easy ways to become a better online learner. Whether you're taking a class or just researching, here are the DOs and DON'Ts. What If The World Were 100 People? Here’s a fresh take on a complex set of data. What if you took all the statistics about everyone in the world and boiled it all down into one question: what if the world was just 100 people? What if you took the billions and billions of people on Earth and made it so only 100 people could represent them? You’d get some super-simplified but interesting stats, that’s for sure. For example, there would be (obviously) 50 men and 50 women. But most of those men and women would live in Asia.

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Curious about why Jeff Dunn thinks you should attend college? Check out his article ‘ 3 Predictions For The Future Of Liberal Arts ‘ posted earlier today. A Visual Guide To Twitter For Beginners. 25 Ways To Use Twitter To Improve Your Professional Development. Although LinkedIn gets a lot of love as a professional social media site, Twitter is a force that can’t be ignored by up-and-coming young professionals. It’s a great place to get connected and informed, and an especially good resource for growing professionally. 6 Steps To Becoming A Better Twitter User. How Online Learning Is Being Used To Enhance Education. The basic idea behind online learning is simple: enable more people to learn for less money. A Visual Look At The Life Of Martin Luther King Jr. 25 Ways Teachers Can Integrate Social Media Into Education. The Habits That Make You Live Longer.

Although immortality isn’t an option, why not live your life to the fullest? The oldest person in the world, Jeanne Calment, lived to be 122 years old; scientists believe the maximum human lifespan is 126 years old. Genes constitute about one-third of the factors leading to long life. The other two-thirds have to do with lifestyles and chance. 7 Ways Students Can Volunteer Over Winter Break. Why Students Should Use Twitter.

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