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Elkanah have a set of iPads that roam around from class to class. Both schools found it important for the teachers to be acquainted with the technology before the learners began using it in school. Elkanah provided teachers with iPads six months before implementing the system with learners. Stadler found that this approach worked best and that hands-on staff training was very important. Elkanah selected their Grade 6 teachers, being the most technology-enthused group in the school, to take part in the iPad project. “Sharing ideas and collaborating amongst each other while using the device as a personal device first, before taking it to the classroom, was a key to success,” said Stadle

Content curation is so much more than compiling lists and dropping articles, blog posts, and images into pretty templates. Platforms like Paper.li may work for amateurs, but content curation is big time business.

Content curators — or editors — find, sort, categorize, and distill the big data and vast amount of content that’s accessible to us.

Curators are editors — typically people with hard-core newsroom experience — who are liked and trusted by readers. Curators use their brains; they tap into emotions.

“The majority of social media-using teens say their peers are mostly kind to one another on social network sites. Overall, 69% of social media-using teens think that peers are mostly kind to each other on social network sites.”

This a great statistic to use for “positive norming” when talking to students about online behavior.