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"As an educator who is addicted to Twitter I have always read about students getting introduced to Twitter and wondered how it would work. After reading and reading I have finally decided to give it a go. Here is my introduction to Twitter in my classroom. Last Tuesday, the day started like any other. Roll call, discussion, introduction to an activity and a bit of a laugh with my Year 7 and 8 Technology class. We had been discussing the importance of being an active online user and being a positive digital citizen (the students are preparing some presentations for Year 2-3 children later in the term). The conversation moved into learning environments and we discussed the small and "un-student friendly" (their words) environment that they were currently sitting in. "Take the teachable moment and run with it" my inner, energetic teacher yelled from my shoulder. So there we were talking about the "Ultimate Learning Environment", when one of my students asked me "Why is social media so big?". Good question I thought, why is it 'so big'. So we unpacked that question and broke it down. We talked about Social Media and what it was and how it worked, they gave me excellent examples and we tied it back into our discussion about digital citizenship. From this point, as a class, we decided we would use social media to help us with our learning. The students had no idea how it could work. I suggested twitter and how I use it. We pulled up my profile and saw how it worked (discussion only). The decision was then made -> Let's ask the twitterverse to help us!! On rolled Monday 5th May and in our first class (I see this group twice a week) we decided that tomorrow would be the day, we would ask twitter for their advice on "What makes a GREAT learningenvironment?". The students already have some fantastic ideas and a plan of where they want to see their environment heading but they needed some depth to their plan and some other opinions outside of

"She demanded that all participating staff members surrender their phones and other such personal devices. The book you hold in your hands would not exist had high school been a pleasant experience for me… It was on those quiet weekend nights when even my parents were out having fun that I began making serious attempts to make stories in comics form. - Adrian Tomine, introduction to 32 Stories Computer Science Professor Calvin Newport's recent book, Deep Work, posits that all that shallow phone time is creating stress, anxiety, and lost creative opportunities, while also doing a number on our personal and professional lives.Author Manoush Zomorodi's recent TED Talk on how boredom can lead to brilliant ideas, below, details a weeklong experiment in battling smartphone habits, with lots of scientific evidence to back up her findings."

"The Kaua Moho was the last species of it's entire genus and it was the last genus in it's family. This male was not just the last of his kind, he was the last being on his entire branch of the evolutionary tree, there was nothing left on the planet that was even close to being like him. That kind of loneliness is unimaginable. No other avian family has had every single species within it go completely extinct in modern times. Different species of Moho lived on each island of Hawaii and their evolutionary cousins the kioea birds lived alongside them, but starting in 1800 (about the time Europeans started arriving to the islands in significant numbers and also about the time the native human population of Hawaii also got decimated by diseases) one by one they died out due to the introduction of foreign avian diseases and parasites, habitat loss, and hunting for their plumage. 2 hurricanes within 10 years of each other finished them off. They are all gone and that song or any song like it will never be heard again save for in recordings. The hurricanes dealt the final blow, but 95% of it was humanity's fault. This has become common in Hawaii due to having so many species that only exist there. A LOT of those species are gone now because the arrival of Europeans brought disease, invasive species, and people straight up killed them or destroyed their habitats. It is a similar situation on every isolated island or area in the world as humans have expanded and explored every nook and cranny on the planet, no matter how hard it is to get to or how little business we have there we feel the need to interfere in even the most delicate and tiny ecosystem. Even the large, continent sized ecosystems are suffering. It doesn't matter if there are millions or even billions of an animal or plant, we will find some way to kill them all. It is only in the last few decades that serious steps have finally been taken to preserve the few areas on this world that we have not destroyed, but

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"This book is a collection of homework problems for use in an introductory physics course. It is a work in progress, currently complete through mechanics and electromagnetism. There is a complete set of ancillary materials, including solutions and an online answer checker. If you're an instructor, you can use these problems as a plug-in replacement for the ones in a commercial textbook, thus insulating yourself from common hassles associated with using the problems from a commercial text. For example, you can change books without having to redo all your problem sets, or you can tell your students that they can use any edition of a particular text."

"propuestas que te facilitarán acercarte a ellos, escuchar sus opiniones y sus puntos de vista, saber lo que les emociona o les preocupa. Hemos seleccionado diez actividades con las que puedes llegar a conocer mejor a tus alumnos y, al mismo tiempo, trabajar con ellos la creatividad, la expresión escrita y oral, el manejo de las nuevas tecnologías y otras habilidades.1. Escribir un autorretrato literario2. Descubrir La primera maravilla del mundo3. Documentar un día de su vida en imágenes4. Crear un póster o un mural con todo lo que les gusta5. Inmortalizar su lugar favorito6. Hablar durante un minuto de un tema que les encante7. Entrevistar a alguien especial8. Hacer una playlist de sus canciones favoritas9. Debatir sobre un tema de actualidad10. Twittear una frase que les emocione"

"Nos merecemos otras tecnologías, algo mejor que lo que hoy en día llamamos «Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación». Este libro trata de sus costes psicológicos, sociales, políticos, ecológicos y economícos mientras relata experiencias para crear Soberanía Tecnológica. Las autoras nos acercan a otros modos de desearlas, diseñarlas, producirlas y mantenerlas. Experiencias e iniciativas para desarrollar libertad, autonomía y justicia social mientras se crean sistemas autonómos de telefonía móvil, redes de traducción simultánea, plataformas de leaks, herramientas de seguridad, algoritmos soberanos, servidores éticos y tecnológias apropiadas entre otras. Los textos son de Alex Haché, Benjamin Cadon, COATI, Carolina, Claudio Agosti, Elleflâne, Framasoft + AMIPO, Ippolita, Kali Kaneko, Loreto Bravo, Maxigas y Margarita Padilla."