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Social Media Personalities and Teaching - a detailed list - pretty neat.

"In a move that underscores OverDrive's plans to support a robust selection of streaming video for libraries, the company on Tuesday announced the appointment of Lee C. Milstein to the newly created position of chief strategy officer. Milstein was most recently head of the news content partnership team for Google's YouTube division, and previously held positions at leading tech and media companies including AOL and DivX. "

"Twitter is turning out to be the most useful for teaching resources; it was cited by 66 percent of participants. Pinterest came in second at 38 percent. LinkedIn, taglined as the "world's largest professional network," is referenced by a mere 11 percent"

By middle school, children spend more time with digital media than they do with their teachers or even with their parents, according to a recent study. Is the internet a good teacher? Apparently not.

Gaming, wikis, blogs, social media, interactive polls and QR codes: just some of the technologies that teachers are bringing into the classroom. The dizzying pace of tech evolutions offers some challenges as teachers and administrators race to keep up with the latest tools.

An emerging group of leaders in Canadian education has attracted thousands of followers. They've made Twitter an extension of their lives, delivering twenty or more tweets a day that can include, for example, links to media articles, research, new ideas from education bloggers, or to their own, or simply a personal thought. At their best, edu-tweeters are adeptly leveraging Twitter to brand themselves, to reinvent teacher PD, and perhaps to accelerate the transformation of our Canadian education systems. Twitter is being used to extend formal PD conferences beyond their venue to followers on Twitter in real time; it's facilitating informal discussions ("unconferences") among educators with common interests; it's allowing best practices to "go viral" on the Internet; and it's allowing innovative classroom teachers to challenge the status quo.

"APPY 25TH BIRTHDAY GIF! BOOTLEGS COLLABORATED WITH THE 'MOVING THE STILL' EXHIBITION PARTNERS TO CREATE CONTENT AROUND THEIR DIGITAL PROGRAM & INSTALLATION CELEBRATING THE GIF. WE DOCUMENTED THE GALLERY SHOW AT ART BASEL MIAMI, CONDUCTED ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS WITH CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS TO EXPLORE THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE RISE OF THE DIGITAL MEDIUM AND THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE WAS A CHARMING SHORT FILM WE DEVELOPED AND PRODUCED WITH DIRECTOR SEAN PECKNOLD TO CELEBRATE THE HISTORY OF THE BELOVED GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT."

Incredibly powerful article on the power of social media and the lives it touches

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"Are teenagers losing their social skills? Parents and pundits seem to think so. Teens spend so much time online, we're told, that they're no longer able to handle the messy, intimate task of hanging out face-to-face. "After school, my son is on Facebook with his friends. If it isn't online, it isn't real to him," one mother recently told me in a panic. "Everything is virtual!""

"Distraction is the dominant currency in our digitally focused culture. I personally find it hard to concentrate when being plugged on particularly when the task I am working on is so important that it requires a high degree of mindful consciousness like for instance scribbling few pages  on my thesis, writing a journal article, doing a literature review...etc. Anytime I embark on one of these tasks I always make sure to turn off WiFi and put my phone on flight mode. My brain can't handle the distraction coming off these devices."