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Chris Ruether

Education Week: Schools Are Using Social Networking to Involve Parents - 0 views

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  • This school year, the 1.1 million-student New York City system launched a new text-subscription service that notifies parents in English or Spanish of school news and a series of webinars on topics of relevance to parents. The 640,000-student Los Angeles school district hired its first-ever director of social media this past spring, whose main charge is communicating and sharing district information with parents and students via tools such as YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr.
  • In the 182,000-student Fairfax County school system in Virginia, 84,500 people have subscribed to the district's enhanced news and information email and text service, the district's Facebook page has 26,000 "likes," and its Twitter account has 8,100 followers
  • digital technologies to improve communication between the school and parents
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  • has its teachers use Skype to run parent conferences and airs live and archived video of all parent and teacher association meetings for parents who are unable to attend. Recently, Mr. Mazza and some staff members even brought laptops into a local mosque that a number of the school's families attend, and streamed live footage there of one of the meetings
  • About 2,000 parents have already received training since the start of school this year, according to Kelly Cline, the senior manager of parent engagement for the Houston district.
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article talks about teaching the parents about how to use social media properly in order for them to stay up to date about many things in their children's lives. one example is using Skype to do parent teacher conferences. Also using high-quality digital content in the homes is allowing parents to once again help their students with homework.
Rina Yu

Teaching students about online safety - 0 views

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  • Rina Yu on 03 Oct 13
     
    Teachers can use this information to teach students to be safe on the internet
Chris Ruether

How Social Networking Helps Teaching (and Worries Some Professors) - Technology - The C... - 1 views

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  • Ask students to do role-playing exercises on Facebook or Twitter. For instance, students in an American-history course could each be required to set up a Facebook page for a historical figure and periodically post "status updates" of things the famous people did. Similarly, Utah State University organized a Civil War re-enactment on Twitter.
  • Some attendees stressed that there is a danger that professors would use
  • new technologies just because they seemed cool, rather than for any specific learning goa
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article gave specific examples of how social media was used in the class room. Being a History major I especially liked the idea of making pages for certain historical figures and posting status updates about things that person did
Chris Ruether

Cyberbullying: Should schools police students' social media accounts? (+video) - CSMoni... - 0 views

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  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article talks about the trouble with to much social media and the use of "Cyberbullying". I think this is an important article for all incoming teachers to read and understand.
Chris Ruether

100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students About Social Media | Teaching Degr... - 2 views

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  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    many different ways for teaching students to about social media
karleighray

11 useful Android apps for time management and productivity - 2 views

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  • karleighray on 03 Oct 13
     
    This is a slideshow of productivity apps for Android systems. It shows a few cloud storage and file sharing programs. It also has many note and list creation apps.
Michael Becker

http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf - 0 views

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  • Michael Becker on 03 Oct 13
     
    Official meta-survery done by the DoE about online learning.  Great source for trends and factual information.
Kylie Baker

Report says giving iPads to Auburn kindergartners increases test scores - Education - B... - 0 views

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  • Kylie Baker on 04 Oct 13
     
    This article was based on an experiment done using two groups of Kindergarteners; ones who learned with iPads, and ones who did not. The results prove that using iPads with the students improved test scores.
anonymous

http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.library.wwu.edu/doi/pdf/10.1080/00094056.1999.10521999 - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 06 Oct 13
     
    A journal article explaining why there is a need for change in the way students are graded, ideas for forms of alternative assessment and what it would look like, and how it contributes to children's learning.
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