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World Environment Day: Living Responsibly with Nature

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Spreading awareness: Use social media to share information about environmental issues and advocate for change. It encourages individuals, communities, and governments to take concrete actions towards sustainable development and to address critical environmental challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

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Balance the Delivery

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Unaccounted time for social media and gaming usage. As schools are out for the summer, teachers and students need relief from the constant dependency on technology, whether it be for work, social media, or entertainment. For those teachers who used Socratic Seminars, this is a great opportunity.

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Communicating a Concept With Instagram

A Principal's Reflections

You will choose a theme/concept statement from the statements we generate or address in our Socratic Seminar at the end of the play. educational technology Innovation Instagram New Milford High School Social Media' The requirements are as follows: IDENTIFY THE CONCEPT IN THE PLAY. So what do you think of this project?

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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

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As society becomes increasingly dependent on social media sites for consuming information and as a personal pulpit for ideas and opinions, schools and classrooms need to become the primary source of instruction on how to prepare students for effective offline and online discourse. identifying an idea worth highlighting, and.

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The Seeds of Innovation

A Principal's Reflections

A few weeks ago, I made a commitment to visit schools that are using social media, smartphones, texting, and other digital technologies, as a vital part of daily classroom instruction. Principal Sheninger obviously sees that social media and students bringing in their own technology are great educational tools.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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Seminar Overview. Each of the seminars I attended (a handful of roughly five dozen offered) was filled with pithy ideas, how-tos, and problem-solving. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word. Use the logo and colors from my TpT store across all my social media. copyrights.

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

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We inadvertently learn from our daily social interactions, with most of our informal learning happens through online sources of information. For example, YouTube, social media, news websites, even self-help videos/blogs which are present in every possible genre. Seminars held online, are called webinars.

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