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How to Find Trusted News: AI Art, Social Media Chaos, and AI Privacy

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Season 2, Episode 3 of Cool Cat Teacher Talk tackles some big challenges we educators face in 2025: finding trusted news amidst social media chaos, navigating AI privacy concerns, and teaching students with cutting-edge tools like AI art generation.

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What Do K–12 Educators Need to Know About Literacy in the Digital Age?

EdTech Magazine

Whether they happen through social media platforms or face-to-face conversations, our stories define us. In some ways, literacy has become harder to define in 2025. As a former high school English teacher, I constantly find myself looking for the stories in the world around me. What Is Literacy for K12 Students Today?

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17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

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Copyright 2025 askatechteacher.com All rights reserved. How do you teach kindergarteners to beware of the digital neighborhood, the home of Legoland and virtual pets? How do you teach fifth graders to be careful when the cool middle schoolers aren’t? It’s never too early to start that conversation.

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Tech Tip #144: 11 Ways X/Twitter Improves Education

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Copyright 2025 askatechteacher.com All rights reserved. Sign up for a new tip each week or buy the entire 169 Real-world Ways to Put Tech into Your Classroom. What’s your favorite tech tip in your classroom? Share it in the comments below.

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Screen-free students: How Spokane Public Schools is helping kids engage in real life

eSchool News

The adverse effects of this excessive screen time have significantly impacted students social- emotional health. Forty-one percent of teens with the highest social media usage struggle with mental health issues, and between 2010 and 2020, anxiety among adolescents skyrocketed by 106 percent.

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Subscriber Special: February–Discounted Group Training

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Copyright 2025 askatechteacher.com All rights reserved. Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be fully-involved and an eager risk-taker. Assessment is project-based so participants should be prepared to be fully-involved and eager risk-takers. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class.

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Survey: Education Among Top Industries for AR/VR Investments

EdTech Magazine

The vast majority — 86 percent — of respondents to the 2019 Augmented and Virtual Reality Survey Report agreed that by 2025, XR technologies will be as ubiquitous as mobile devices. It’s already begun to take hold in social media (think Snapchat filters), and virtual 3D spaces for learning are likely to become the norm in the near future.

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