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Article.aspx?storyCode=6081830&s_cid=RESads_TTVvideos# Edutopia | K-12 Education Tips & Strategies That Work. Digital Learning Day: Resource Roundup. Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources, and Ideas. Although students are evermore connected to the social web, many of these networks remain out-of-class digital playgrounds where students congregate. In a 2014 survey of 1,000 teachers, just one in five said they use social media regularly with students. Of course, it can be a challenge to incorporate social media into lessons. There are many gray areas for teachers to navigate, like setting guidelines, accessibility at school, and student safety. But to help teachers navigate this ever-changing landscape of social media tools, here are some of the best guides on the web for four popular networks, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest.

More Great Reads From Edutopia In addition to those great guides, there is a lot of useful information right here on Edutopia. You can explore all things related to the subject on Edutopia's social media page; here are a few of the more popular, recent posts: A Taxonomy Tree: A Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Graphic. A Taxonomy Tree: A Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Graphic by TeachThought Staff If you’re a TeachThought reader, you know that thought is at the core of our content–curiosity, critical thinking, self-direction, and play among other slivers of learning. This is especially true as it relates to teaching, learning, and technology.

At the point where teaching, learning, and thinking overlap sits the concept of a learning taxonomy. And at that the center of that overlap is Bloom’s Taxonomy, certainly the most iconic of the thinking frameworks we use today. And somewhere in that center of overlap is this graphic. If there is one thing teachers can’t get enough of, it’s Bloom’s taxonomy posters. In terms of graphic commentary, it’s a straightforward take on Bloom’s updated taxonomy (Create on top). Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree. Home page - The Education and Training Foundation. Effective Practice in a Digital Age A guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching. How we are supporting you through the FELTAG recommendations. The publication of the FELTAG report and the government response to FELTAG - which was looking to find how we can best support the further education sector with the evolution of new technologies, for the benefit of learners, employers and the UK economy - has been met with a lot of enthusiasm.

But there has also been some confusion, especially around the definition of a 10% wholly online course component. Advice from the Skills Funding Agency Has the question ‘are further education providers supposed to be having 10% of their courses delivered online by 2016’, been echoing round the staff room? Well now we have the answer from the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) through their ‘delivering online learning: SFA response to FELTAG report’. The SFA response says: “We are not expecting providers to convert 10% of learning delivery in each programme of study ‘en bloc’ to online to meet a ‘directive’. Realising the FELTAG recommendations Set up a collaborative sector forum to deliver for the sector. Teaching with Technology Video Library.