eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

The team began with the open-ended question, “How might we pilot different practices related to cell phone/social media use to gauge the effectiveness or impact on student well-being, engagement and sense of belonging?” They generated a list of possible changes and then honed in on a few that they want to test this spring.

Policies

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2025

Just a few of the ones that excited me included: ✅ Word of the day ✅ Animal of the day ✅ Daily act of kindness ✅ Weekly calendar (that can update live from a Google Calendar or other source) ✅ On this day in history ✅ Countdowns (for most any event – graduation, end of school, breaks and more) ✅ Birthday class lists (for me to customize and (..)

Tools

techlearning

JULY 2, 2025

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Libraries

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 26, 2025

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Pearson

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 16, 2025

Yet, this progress comes with profound ethical challenges Reed Hepler and Crystal Trice both gave great Library 2.0 Models are trained on copyrighted materials from sources like The New York Times, books, code, and social media without explicit consent. Copyright issues add another layer of ethical debt.

Training

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The program includes an extensive library of engaging texts, rigorous comprehension tasks, evidence-based writing in a built-in portal, a patented Guided Window for fluency development, a variety of scaffolds, and numerous materials for teacher-led instruction.

Social Media

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Those local outreach programs are particularly important in what some call “low-resource” areas, meaning places where children live in lower-income households and have less access to broadband internet or information centers like libraries. “I We hear on social media almost daily about something like that,” Pai says.

Outcomes

Turnitin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

What social media platform works best for the dissemination of information to students? Kit : In terms of communicating information, we have had success primarily with Facebook , but anticipate that this will continue to drop off as cohorts begin to favour alternative social media. Emails may be an increasingly safer bet.

Social Media

techlearning

JULY 24, 2025

How schools can best do prevention programming Traditionally, prevention programming is in the form of an assembly during which school-age children are warned not to create social media accounts or to keep all accounts completely private. Following this model, schools might assume they should restrict or ban the use of GenAI.

Social Media

Turnitin

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Șercan’s work started in the national library, but also included the use of a Turnitin solution to assess whether these prominent individuals had submitted original work. Beyond that, 43% had heard of essay mills, and of those 44% had seen adverts for them - predominantly on social media.

Online Assessments

ET Magazine

MARCH 20, 2025

A newly enhanced Instructional Strategy Library: To elevate instruction and better support teachers, Discovery Education has enhanced its one-stop-spot for strategies supporting more engaging, efficient, and effective teaching.

Learning

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2025

For the last four years, school and public libraries have been drawn into a culture war that seeks to censor, limit and discredit diverse perspectives. When librarians said no, policy changes were submitted and laws were proposed all in the name of controlling the library collection. Some librarians lost their jobs. California, 1973).

Libraries

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2025

AI Research & Reading Tools Readwise Reader – Central hub for all reading material Feedly – RSS feed aggregator for collecting content Readwise Chrome Extension – One-click web article saving Perplexity Pro – AI-powered research assistant Note-Taking & Organization Evernote – Digital filing cabinet for notes and (..)

Tools

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2025

How will people be celebrating National Library Week April 6-12, 2025? ” How will people be celebrating National Library Week April 6-12, 2025? National Library Week | ALA LINK [link] National Library week is coming up, April 6-12. What did presenters at CoSN say about cell phones in the classroom?

Education

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Office of Personnel Management ordered agencies to remove websites and social media accounts that inculcate or promote gender ideology. Data from across government websites was removed to comply with Trump’s executive order recognizing only two sexes, male and female.

Education

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As a teacher, you can get started with a library of 40 books as part of their free version – go to coolcatteacher.com/bookcreator to get started now. There’s tons of information on there, and if you want to know anything about it, please feel free to reach out to me on social media, through Twitter or my e-mail address.

Classroom

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 24, 2025

Our second Library 2.025 mini-conference, " The Innovative Library: Creativity, Change, and Impact, " will now be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 , from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. Our special conference chair is Kelvin Watson, Executive Director, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.

Libraries

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 6, 2025

STEVE HARGADON Steve is the founder and director of the Learning Revolution Project and Library 2.0 , the host of the Future of Education and Reinventing School interview series, and has been the founder and chair (or co-chair) of a number of annual worldwide virtual events, including the Global Education Conference and the Library 2.0

Conference

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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Blended Learning

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

The students worked with Mrs. Fleming on Google Chromebooks in the library to design their e-books. Jessica Groff and Joanna Westbrook created an ELA task that incorporated Twitter into their unit on Julius Caesar and built on content authentic to the play – i.e. social media repurposed with and for academic discourse.

Blended Learning

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2025

They were often people who had to balance school with work and families, like Sabria Williams not more privileged high school graduates with the time and money to live in dorms and spend time in the library. If you look on social media, you can see how infuriating this is to students.

MOOC

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

These employees of Verner Center for Early Learning, a nonprofit in Asheville, have held such sessions in public libraries and the church since November to help young children process trauma they experienced in Helene. Before the storm, she was a wellness coach and a freelance social media manager.

System

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2025

And they look at the libraries and the humanities spaces that are less well looked after, that don’t offer paths to internships, that don’t have big mentor programs, and that clearly have, and do, in fact, have fewer resources in the university, and they follow the money. And we get touch on the media part and the social part.

Study

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2025

Then a few weeks ago he saw a video on social media that changed his plans. In March the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced plans to scan social media accounts of visa holders for what it deems antisemitic material. After being accepted to several U.S.

Social Media

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

Credit: Mike Simmons for The Hechinger Report Many residents see Walterss pitch as a play for national attention, given his abundance of social media posts praisingDonald Trump,who campaigned on returning prayer to schools and as president has established a White House Faith Office and a task force to root out anti-Christian bias.

Classroom

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2025

Social media lights up with reactions. Libraries field waitlists. But the power of books goes far beyond personal nostalgia. When a major title drops, it’s not just a release date–it’s a shared experience. Readers rush to get their hands on it. These moments remind us why books matter.

Social Media

techlearning

JUNE 26, 2025

This is a really great option if mobility is an important requirement, as this can go anywhere.

Lenovo

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I started this blog 10 years ago, which was shortly after using Twitter and other social media tools to connect with educators. Find templates for creating logos, flyers, posters, greeting cards, business cards, online magazines, and social media headers and graphics (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

Tools

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Librarian Karen Scott challenges us with some non-traditional practices to get kids interested in reading including organizing her library by genre and using social media and graphics to inspire a love of reading.

Social Media

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2024

Ninety-two percent check social media daily. But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall. They might be coming in for coffee.

Libraries

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2019

A few weeks ago, Aaron, a student in my high school elective class, mentioned he didn’t use social media very often. I’m usually a library media specialist, but with only a few days notice, I had inherited this course from another instructor and was given the added challenge of updating the curriculum.

Social Media

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Communicate With Social Media. With 90% of school-age individuals (kids over thirteen and adults) on some form of social media, it has become a natural way to communicate ideas, collaborate on projects, accept class work, and answer questions. More on Social Media. That’s easy to solve.

Online Learning

Brilliant or Insane

AUGUST 14, 2015

Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics For more powerful Twitter strategies, check out our social media library. Fedena, a School Management Software company, shares 26 ways educators use Twitter, in this nifty, alphabetized infographic. Meanwhile, share […].

Twitter

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2022

social media. Tech teachers, tech coordinators, library media specialists, curriculum specialists. Topics include: cyberbullying. digital citizenship. digital commerce. digital communications. digital footprint. digital law. digital privacy. digital rights and responsibilities. digital search/research. image copyrights.

Digital Citizenship

Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

Rahman explained, “The students brought up social media as the platform. When schools closed, Rahman’s students continued designing and sharing their social media campaigns. Sorrells, a math teacher in Alabama, also uses social media to connect students with authentic audiences.

Social Media

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2022

If I want to push my re ading, I sign up with my local library’s reading club, but other times I set a goal of a book or two a month in the summertime and make time to sit and read. Take a Social Media. While social media can be helpful, it can also distract and keep us from deepening and focusing on relationships.

Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2024

Between newsletters for parents, announcements on social media, communications for students and parents, and more, it became a challenge to demonstrate the excitement and engagement of learning through what could be boring tools. They frequently update the library with new content.

Social Media