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Teachers should only use social media as a teaching tool to improve their students' education. "If it's not to the betterment of your kids, why are you doing it? It may not be for you," says Brian Aspinall, an elementary teacher in Chatham, ON who speaks and blogs about technology and educational reform. "Don't do it because you went to a conference on Twitter and someone said you should do it."

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This website hosts OER instructional videos on topics in math, including algebra, calculus, liberal arts math, and more.

Personally, I am against use of social media in the class.

This paper explains very clearly the meaning of multiliteracies and multimodality. In education this pedagogy brought new teaching and learning methods which are different from traditional approaches that focused on monomodal tools for learning. Multiliteracy gives flexibility in teaching and learning. Students learn in different ways, some of them prefer linguistic expression while others are more open to multimodal forms.

This paper raises serious doubts regarding the success of our educational system in preparing students for the knowledge society. According to the author the knowledge economy "...holds the promise of changing, to our benefit, some of the most deep-seated and universal regularities of economic life and of dramatically enhancing productivity and growth. Its effects, however, have so far proved modest." The disruption brought by the new technologies can cause an even bigger inequality in societies. Worth thinking about it.

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An approach for podcast integration into online classes

This is a short, quick checklist for social presence strategies

We are the disrupters.

Interesting view of pandemic and educaiton. Discussion of MOOCs

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Thanks for sharing this article. I think more instructors will need this information since the sudden move to remote learning due to the pandemic. Great information! #TT2041

I think these are helpful Video lectures in chemistry. #TT2041

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Some good ideas on how to change up the online classroom.

I thought this was great! This semester I actually have a baseball theme for all my modules. Game 7 of the CWS!!! :)

A couple of years ago the optimistic view on virtual schools prevailed. For several students this learning environment provided the safety they had lacked in traditional schools either because emotional, social or other reasons. Contrary to the original enthusiasm, however, today more and more analyses refer to the problems of these schools. The Virtual Schools in U.S 2019 - among others - describes this problem in detail.

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