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"The proliferation of social media makes it imperative that young students understand the impact of these services and how to use them in an ethical manner. Digital citizenship is a hotbed issue right now as social media becomes a primary meeting place for people young and old.  If students are unaware of how to utilize these services in an ethical way, they run the risk of putting themselves or others in danger. With this in mind, there’s a huge opportunity out there to work on digital citizenship skills with children in school."

Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Amanda Peirick, Jim Lerman

There is no doubt that the popularity of Chromebooks is increasing. Schools are investing hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve curriculums and prepare students for the real world. In previous blogs, we discussed how to prepare for Chromebooks and why you NEED to track Chromebooks. In this blog, we are discussing why IT needs to Track Chromebook costs.

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"The way teaching is typically done just doesn’t match how the brain actually learns.

 

“Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student's brain is a sheet of paper. That’s actually wrong,” says Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT."

Via EDTECH@UTRGV

Evidence-led innovation by definition excludes fundamental innovation because it means only building stuff that past evidence said would work.

Via EDTECH@UTRGV