Education Matters - (tech and non-tech)

Are you using all available tools for your school's social media campaigns? Learn why and how you should effectively be using hashtags.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Hashtags

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/how-to-use-twitter-with-success-for-education-and-more/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/what-you-should-know-about-twitter-chats/

- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence/?tag=Twitter

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Constrasting evolution of Web.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Infographic

Lots of great information addressing access to and use of technology by children!

It's important to note that once you post something on Facebook, or any other social network, it's no longer private, period.

While Facebook makes it fairly easy to control with whom you share information, the best way to keep your information private is to not post it anywhere in the first place.  

The changes caused by social media and what influence it has on the societies of the modern age

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Parents

Parent Teacher Conference

K-12 blended learning primer

Nice infographic on blended learning.

Blended learning has much potential.  However, it is only PART of the solution to why ails education today.  It is not a replacement for funding.  Adequate funding, whether online of f2f, must go hand in hand.  You can't maximize the potential of education while cutting necessary $$$.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Infographic

Lots of great information addressing access to and use of technology by children!

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Cyberbullying

Supports an iPad book called "It's Okay to be Different" (via Story Panda). Beautiful but simple message. 

This is the best anti-bullying poster I think I've ever come across. The visual would be perfect in an elementary classroom, and the poster covers all areas from glasses to adoption to stuttering. Let's celebrate our differences!