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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%). Via Jonha Revesencio, Deb Nystrom, REVELN Consulting, Robin Martin
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An important corollary question is what do we use social media for? 
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May 12, 11:40 AM
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching
- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence
Deb Nystrom, REVELN Consulting's curator insight,
May 17, 4:35 PM
Always good to see the current demographics in social. Facebook continues to be the king, with women, city dwellers, Hispanics and below $30K on the list, via Pew Research. Hmmm.... ~ D 
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May 18, 11:18 AM
How did I miss this one, Deb? Thanks for the scoop!! Delete the scoop?
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via Teacher Portal Technology use is ubiquitous in K-12 classrooms across the U.S. The Pew Research Center (2013) surveyed teachers of Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (... Via Bonnie Bracey Sutton
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What does the statement good uses mean? We have too many educators who simply throw technology at the students without guideliness or thought. 
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May 18, 2:56 PM
Ed tech is getting to be a big deal in classrooms; part-and-parcel for the digital age. This infographic explores its development in the K–12 classrooms of today and gives some teachers' insights and opinions, and also gives us a glimpse of what the future holds for the tech-oriented classrooms of tomorrow.” This should be a wake up call for those who are still reluctant to embrace good uses of technology. Delete the scoop?
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In no way do I consider myself an expert of social media!!! However, I am a person that attempts to leverage it for influence, and a parent trying to navigate it with my 3 daughters. Recently, I ...
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I like this idea of learning with children, whether as a teacher or parent, and setting some boundaries for them so they learn an effective and mindful social media practice. And, we, the adults, do as well. Delete the scoop?
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How do people learn, and how can they do it better in a constantly evolving context? These six channels are powerful players in how learners make meaning: identifying, decoding, evaluating, and sharing fluid media and information. Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
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This is a great infographic and provides a beginning for where we need to go. 
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May 18, 4:14 AM
Interesting scoop on different learning channels. Delete the scoop?
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Important research compiled on the effects of students multitasking while learning shows that they are losing depth of learning, getting mentally fatigued, an
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We need to put a better effort into it and demonstrate in concrete ways the benefits of serial single tasking. Delete the scoop?
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Looks useful and can be integrated into more traditional learning. 
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May 15, 8:22 AM
"Stategy-Tactics" with the use of "Tools". This graphic shows the overlapping nature of information tools available online.
1. Multi-Media Learning Platform 2. Digital Tools for Finding Information 3. Digital Tools for Understanding Information 4. Digital Tools for Using Information 5. Digital Tools to Support Writing
Assignment: What specific tools do you use for each of these Tactics?
What can we add to these circles? Add your answers to the comment section.
I visited this blog to dig a little deeper and find that they have updated their model with pop-up explanations of how teachers of the 21st Century may apply this to their students either in a classroom setting or virtually across the world.
http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/digital-differentiation-get-wired.html
It's well worth the visit, my friends, to see the miracle of the internet and it's effect on the modern "classroom."
Warmly, Susan Daniels
http://crazydreamersdo.com
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May 15, 9:26 AM
In the wrong hands, this is just layering over what already is not working. We need something different, full of risk, and creative. Delete the scoop?
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Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning:
Published jointly by the Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University, Canada (UNESCO/COL Chair in OER) as CC-BY-SA and freely available to all:www.col.org/psOERIRP. Available in PDF and epub formats.
This book is one in a series of OER resources published by COL. It describes the OER movement in detail, providing readers with insight into OER's significant benefits, its theory and practice, and its achievements and challenges. The 16 chapters, written by some of the leading international experts on the subject, are organised into four parts by theme: OER in AcademiaOER in Practice:Diffusion of OERProducing, Sharing and Using OER Instructional designers, curriculum developers, educational technologists, teachers, researchers, students, others involved in creating, studying or using OER: all will find this timely resource informative and inspiring. Via Stewart-Marshall, MikoAgenda
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This looks like it might be a good only with a thorough read. 
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May 15, 8:47 AM
"Open Educational Resources (OER) – that is, teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free to others to use, revise and share – offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of worldwide education. Those resources can be full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, software, and other materials and techniques used to promote and support universal access to knowledge. This book, initiated by the UNESCO/COL Chair in OER, is one in a series of publications by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) examining OER. It describes the movement in detail, providing readers with insight into OER’s significant benefits, its theory and practice, and its achievements and challenges. The 16 chapters, written by some of the leading international experts on the subject, are organised into four parts by theme: OER in Academia – describes how OER are widening the international community of scholars, following MIT’s lead in sharing its resources and looking to the model set by the OpenCourseWare ConsortiumOER in Practice – presents case studies and descriptions of OER initiatives underway on three continentsDiffusion of OER – discusses various approaches to releasing and “opening” content, from building communities of users that support lifelong learning to harnessing new mobile technologies that enhance OER access on the InternetProducing, Sharing and Using OER – examines the pedagogical, organisational, personal and technical issues that producing organisations and institutions need to address in designing, sharing and using OER"....
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May 17, 10:30 AM
La investigación sobre educación abierta sigue adelante. Delete the scoop?
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Understanding learners’ experiences in the online classroom help you improve your courses for current and future students and help build a strong learning Via Blaine Morrow
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But this is not happening in many online environments. We do need reciprocity. When will we get it? Delete the scoop?
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Finding the time for social media is one of the hardest things, I often hear business owners say. You know that you have to find the time for social media Via ICTPHMS
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A short, sweet article
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This would shake up the old status quo, particularly the one about the rules. Delete the scoop?
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I'm excited to see how harnessing the power of social media to connect and collaborate can support educators as they seek to improve their practice. Recently, I participated with education colleagu...
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Here is the kind of useful and concrete explanations novices and newcomers need to use social media successfully and learn with it. Delete the scoop?
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When it comes to social media, men tend to spend more time on some sites, women on others. Via Ivo Nový, Martin (Marty) Smith
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It makes sense they will use social media differently. A woman with children might be more likely to take a call or text than a man without. Delete the scoop?
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Content and resources for the education researcher
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"Adults, including parents, educators, and scholars, recognize both opportunities and risks in young people’s digital media use." Educational managers are not reflecting this where I work. Delete the scoop?
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We need resources of this nature to help teachers and students find their way in a constantly changing digital world. Delete the scoop?
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I was asked to present on teaching presence in online environments for a small conference of teachers in the Masters of E-Elearning program at Universitat Obert Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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We need to be present for our students in any educational forum. Delete the scoop?
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Here are my session materials for day three of the 2013 Thinking and Learning Conference in Melbourne. Hope you find them useful: Enhancing and Amplifying Pedagogy with Digital Tools Caught in the...
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The third day of notes and links from the Thinking and Learning conference. I plan on scooping one of the presentations directly. Delete the scoop?
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The NEW blog of Jon Samuelson AKA @ipadsammy on "the Twitters." You will be subjected to my random thoughts on Educational Technology and all things in between. Via Jon Samuelson, Dawn Altman
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We want children learning to use technology. What does that mean and is it always the best end? Delete the scoop?
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Here are some take-away from James B. Glattfelder's talk on Who Controls the World. 1. Complexity is the result of simple interactions. The system as a whole is starting to behave in ways which can...
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MOOC's present great opportunity and great risk. Delete the scoop?
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There are teachers, who without technology, moved children beyond the bottom rungs of Bloom's. Technology is a tool and we need to treat it as such. 
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May 15, 11:39 PM
This was shared by my friend Gretel Patch who has great insight in how to thoughtfully incorporate technology into education. She added her insights to parts of the article: When we speak of 21st Century Skills (as defined by groups like ATCS and the Iowa DOE), we seem to have an ethereal idea of the skills children need. But how are they measured or assessed? Does it matter that most of today’s 8th grade students can’t pass exams from the turn of the last century? We have given up the need to memorize facts, thanks to the Internet, but we need to do a much better job at synthesis and evaluation than previously required. In today’s world, we can easily “phone a friend” or at least text them. So why do we insist on requiring memorization for finals and standardized assessment? Technology can help us move away from the lower reaches of Bloom and create more dynamic assessments that require the true 21st century skills of analysis, evaluation, and synthesis. Some great examples of student work focused on creation are available here. How are you helping to move the students in your district to become creators and evaluators of information? As we approach final exams and the end of the year, I think it is a create question to reflect on. Delete the scoop?
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These fun, mostly free tools can help educators easily create their own Infographics, and bring a very modern twist to instruction. “A picture is worth Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Rod Murray
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I am always interested in fun and free. 
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May 16, 8:35 AM
Great for visual learning, and for synthesis of ideas. Delete the scoop?
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Will need a bit of exploring, but has good links and challenging questions. What does all this mean for education? 
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May 16, 1:54 PM
Things really are moving fast. Some very interesting options for online learning, creating your own textonline as well as learning about programming. The future begins now. Delete the scoop?
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The writing appears to be on the wall for cursive writing.
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Is this either or conversation? It would only be if people are unable to hold more than idea and have a real conversation. When we suggest cursive writing is old school because digital is new school, do we not miss the benefits of both that can accrue to our children? Delete the scoop?
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The following links connect directly to session materials for the breakout sessions that I am doing on the first day of the 2013 Hawker Brownlow Teaching and Learning Conference: Empowering Student...
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Some links to follow up on. Delete the scoop?
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"Amid the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected quarter: neuroscience." Hopefully this day never happens. Delete the scoop?
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In the wrong hands, this is just layering over what already is not working. We need something different, full of risk, and creative.
Susan Daniels's curator insight,
May 15, 8:22 AM
"Stategy-Tactics" with the use of "Tools". This graphic shows the overlapping nature of information tools available online.
1. Multi-Media Learning Platform 2. Digital Tools for Finding Information 3. Digital Tools for Understanding Information 4. Digital Tools for Using Information 5. Digital Tools to Support Writing
Assignment: What specific tools do you use for each of these Tactics?
What can we add to these circles? Add your answers to the comment section.
I visited this blog to dig a little deeper and find that they have updated their model with pop-up explanations of how teachers of the 21st Century may apply this to their students either in a classroom setting or virtually across the world.
http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/digital-differentiation-get-wired.html
It's well worth the visit, my friends, to see the miracle of the internet and it's effect on the modern "classroom."
Warmly, Susan Daniels
http://crazydreamersdo.com
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May 16, 9:00 PM
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The list is good, but ony if taken as a whole. Separating out the pieces creates even more of what we presently have: micro-management and oppression. It does not mean a leader is good at everything. They each recognize their shortcomings and find ways to support those needs.