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We share and transmit a lot of personal information online. This is especially true for students, who not only use academic online tools that require personal information, but who are also incredibly active social network users. Whether a ninth grader, college senior or parent, these privacy tips can help you and your family stay safe this school year.
If you think about how we use technology in our adult lives, it’s primarily a communication experience — email, WebEx, text messages and collaboration tools. It’s social, but we’re not letting these collaborative tools into the classroom.
If we don’t, we will lose their attention, and to some degree, their respect.
But they’ll do better by constructing meaning from it socially — not alone with a text
Evocative of classrooms of the future. Other ideas about how Twitter can be used in a classroom? I've begun to think about how students can ask questions via text or chat to overcome that "shyness" barrier.
"The blogging, Facebook updating, digitally hip mom has become a domestic trope these days. But what about dads? Statistics show they're catching on too. In fact, in some ways dads may even be more social media savvy than their female parenting counterparts .. "