21st Century Learning and Teaching

The Do's and Don'ts for Teachers on Social Media Infographic presents best practices to keep in mind as you embrace the brave new world of social media for teachers.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/dos-and-donts-adapting-to-21st-century-education/

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The How To Build Your Professional Learning Community Infographic presents how you can curate your own professional learning community.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/webwizard

In an effort to keep your Twitter manners properly set up and to make sure you know which part of Twitter is useful for a particular type of question or conversation, check out this visual guide.

An infographic detailing which states have the most identity fraud complaints, the most popular strategies used, and some ways to protect yourself.

Thinking of tweeting about an upcoming holiday? Don’t. Thinking of sharing a photo of your latest grand purchase? Don’t. Thinking of checking in at the airport before your vacation? Don’t.

Staying safe on social media isn't easy. Social networks want a LOT of your information. Here's a visual guide to what you can (and can't) post.

This March Madness-themed infographic uncovers key information on search privacy concerns, social influence, efficacy of images in search results, social sharing behavior, social preferences by social network and demographic, and more.

Was in einer Minute im Netz passiert. (Infografik: Domo)

Ready to erase your tracks and disappear online, once and for all? This infographic from Who Is Hosting This reveals the nine steps you need to take to remove your personal information collected all over the web.

Regularly checking your privacy settings is important because Facebook makes changes to the privacy section a few times per year.

Everyone's worried about how their data can be collected through government programs, but maybe it's time to look at how your information is tracked in everyday life.

Bringing social media (in its many forms) into the classroom has become a Really Big Thing. With all of that information out there, its interesting to also see who is using it and to what degree.

A massive survey of internet users reveals trends in social media usage across numerous platforms, ages, races, genders, population density and which social media sites do they frequently visit. 

The Pew Research Center has released the results of a comprehensive social media survey, conducted over several years to evaluate which demographics were using social media, and on which platforms. Which social networking sites emerged on top?

Of the online adults surveyed at the end of 2012:

67% use Facebook

20% use LinkedIn

16% use Twitter

15% use Pinterest

13% use Instagram

6% use Tumblr

A decent amount of Americans appear to be using social media, but which demographics use social media in greater numbers?

It appears that women use social media 9% more than men do, at a whopping rate of 71%. Other frontrunners with the highest social network activity in their demographic include city dwellers(70%), Hispanics (72%) and adults with a household income below $30,000 annually (72%).

The most pervasive and consistent divider amongst social media users remains, unsurprisingly, their age. 83% of the young adult demographic (18-29 year olds) use social media, which is well over double the activity of online adults over 65 years old (32%).

The following rules of social media are geared towards online businesses and less toward teachers but they're worth seeing anyway.