American Consortium for Equity in Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In today’s digital age, children are exposed to a complex social media landscape, presenting both opportunities and challenges.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If you’re a teen, you could be exposed to conspiracy theories and a host of other pieces of misinformation as frequently as every day while scrolling through your social media feeds. The study asked participants to identify a series of articles as advertisements, opinion or news pieces.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Social Media: The New Stage. Social Media: The New Audience. Social media gives us largest ballroom ever assembled where people from around the world can mix, mingle, and find their clique. We’re ignoring a powerful platform that will help kids want to write again: social media. Social Media!

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Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 16, 2018

How Kids Are Using Mainstream Social Apps What You Should Know About Your Child’s Social Media Platforms The Most Popular Social Apps Among Teens and How They’re Using Them What Are the Mainstream Social Apps and How Are Teens Using Them? It’s sometimes known as the “one-stop shop” for social media.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 6, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Watch teenagers using social media, and you witness an emotional rollercoaster: they are intermittently ecstatic, furious, envious, heartbroken, charmed, anxious, obsessive, and bored. A Study on Adolescent Social Media Use.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 21, 2016

Maybe you think about social media in general and how it’s continuing to grow. When it comes to social media and the use of these tools there is still a large disconnect between the platforms kids use and what we use in the classroom. She has profiles on all these social media services and more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Unfortunately, a sizable portion of online news stories, especially those circulating on social media sites are fake news, false information, disinformation, misinformation, or downright propaganda. Teaching using news articles: Ideas and tips for teachers There are various ways to teach with news.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 26, 2012

Social Media is an incredible resource for education. There are many different social media networks, and lots of ways to use them. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article. free resources social media social network'

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Quite simply, social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook have improved my effectiveness and efficiency as an educational leader. As I learned from my students, many more people use the social media tool, Facebook, than use Twitter. Principals and schools should embrace Twitter, and social media in general.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 12, 2020

The internet and social media give us tools to find out what's happening almost instantly -- sometimes even in real time. Today, even established news outlets now compete for readers' attention in social media feeds. Recommended for: Grades: 8-12 Subjects: Digital citizenship, journalism, social studies, ELA.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

EdSurge recently published two articles that explore this phenomenon from different angles. These two stories are currently our most popular, and they’ve been shared thousands of times on social media. Too little time to plan. Too much violence. Too little compensation. Too much polarization.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 18, 2012

Walyou , a great site for interesting information and more, has a great collection of cheat sheets that have tips, shortcuts, and more for social media sites. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article. free resources social media'

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 25, 2022

Social media can be an amazing tool for so many pu rposes. In no particular order, here are some of my colleagues' and my favorite educational social media accounts. Excellent article adapted from an excellent book. Bonus: ST Math Social Media Accounts. That's where we come in! We would love to know!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Scientific knowledge is proliferating in an unprecedented rate with an increasing number of journal articles and research papers published every year across various disciplines from humanities to medicine and technology. Elsevier offers overs 600 fully open access journals where researchers can publish or access peer-review articles.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this episode, Tricia and Jeff are talking about our relationships with social media, misinformation, disinformation and the role schools must play when leading for media literacy. This conversation was inspired by this recent article in the New York Times by Jenny Gross.

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Class Tech Integrate

JULY 25, 2017

Many educators who embrace the use of technology in the classroom, are still very leery of talking about social media in the classroom. The negatives of social media usage between students and teachers can be disastrous. We as educators should not encourage students to use Social Media apps before that age.

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Educational Technology Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Social Media is an incredible resource for education. There are many different social media networks, and lots of ways to use them. Social media has been embraced by many educators, but many other educators, administrators and parents are concerned about using social media with students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2022

Not a surprise that student use of social media is way up since remote learning became de rigeur in learning. Social media limits users to 13+ but doesn’t monitor that. My conclusion: We aren’t teaching enough about the proper use of social media platforms and the danger of cyberbullying.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As physical distancing becomes a feature of students' everyday lives, social media has emerged as an important outlet for them to stay connected with friends and family. At the same time, not all students have access to the support they need to learn how to use social media in a way that's healthy.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 13, 2015

My newest article is out. This one is about some general guidelines and principles for school districts to consider as they formulate their social media policies. You can read the full article online or in AASA’s School Administrator magazine. Are educators courageous enough to be social media renegades?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Over the past few months, many kids turned to digital tools such as social media or games to pass the time. So much so that one has to wonder about the overall effect on a social and emotional level. The fact is that we don't know the extent of the impact on kids and might not get a firm grasp on this for years.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2019

The drawbacks of social media are well-documented—like anonymous trolls posting negative comments just to spark controversy. In addition to negative commentary, Knowles acknowledged other challenges to adopting social media for education. Finally, for some there is a social-emotional toll.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The other day Bill Ferriter told me that he was working on an article for ASCD and asked if I would answer a few questions. My answers to Bill''s questions provide a snapshot of my social media in education journey. What made you interested in using social media to reach out to your school community?

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 1, 2012

HootSuite is an app that you can use to access and manage your social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ Pages. Evernote for HootSuite lets you create notes from your social media content and also manage your notebooks within your streams. Evernote free resources social media'

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

RockMelt is a free web browser that blends social media into the browser to keep everything in one place. The difference in RockMelt is that it combines your social media networks into your browser. You can easily share what you are viewing online through social media, and quickly chat with friends.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In today’s New York Times article, Does Instagram harm girls? there is a growing scientific literature on the links between social media use and adolescent mental health. But given the widespread eagerness to condemn social media it’s important to remember that it may benefit more adolescents than it hurts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Specifically, we are going to auction off an image of this article—the first NFT ever sold by EdSurge. That’s pretty much the opposite of the way the internet and social media have traditionally treated information, which is to make it easy to make exact copies of something to spread to as many people as possible. “If

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Wikipedia defines “cyberbullying” as: the use of information technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner Cyberbullying occurs on not just social media like Twitter, Facebook, and topical forums, but multiplayer games and school discussion boards.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with information as adults and as educators, there are still many untapped resources to learn from and share with and grow, especially through social media. If there is any doubt that very nearly everyone uses social media, let’s examine some stats from the Pew Internet Research Study.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2024

Just last week, the nation’s second-largest public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban smartphones starting in January, citing adverse health risks of social media for kids. Underwood has been avidly reading popular books and articles about the impact of smartphones on today’s young people.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

With all the talk of the downsides of smartphones for teenagers, parents have looked to smartwatches as a way to stay in contact with their young children while avoiding the full internet and social media access of a phone. At least that was the narrative a couple of years ago.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2021

District Administration has a great article on this topic. Read on… Ask a Tech Teacher has several articles you will enjoy on this same topic: How to Teach Social Media Safety. I’ve written a lot about the importance of teaching students to protect their online privacy. Matt Zalaznick.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

If they aren’t updated, we are left wondering why our blog isn’t getting visitors, why our social media Tweeple don’t generate activity, and why you aren’t being contacted for networking. Sometimes, you’ll find a new category that can include many articles written prior to its addition.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 18, 2024

Content Creators have spent considerable time crafting content, only to face the challenge of reaching their intended audience due to social media algorithms.

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Tech Helpful

APRIL 5, 2018

Recently I became aware of an article that warns parents of dangers associated with the apps Musical.ly Recently I attended an e-parenting workshop at a local school here in Chattanooga and the speaker shared a great social media rating guide: This can be found at www.safesmartsocial.com. Follow your kids on social media.

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

as tools to communicate, connect, and learn, I often get asked about the downside of social media use for educators. My honest answer is that I really don’t see a downside for educators in using social media tools for the purposes I mention above.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2024

They can take over both your personal and work-related accounts, from your emails and social media to online teaching platforms. Phishing Attacks Fraudsters frequently use misleading emails, phone calls, SMSs, social media DMs, and other digital channels to deceive victims and extract confidential information.

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