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"The 2015 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. "
Beth Dichter's insight:
The American Association of School Librarians shares their top websites for 2015 in this post. The websites are in six areas: * Media Sharing * Digital Storytelling * Manage & Organize * Social Networking & Communication * Content Resources * Curriculum Collaboration As always you will find great new tools and they provide a brief explanation as well as a suggestion of grade levels. A few that you may want to check out are listed below. * Tackk allows you to create web pages quickly, and is free! * My Storybook allows students to create online books and would be great to use with younger students. * FlipQuiz allows you create game-style quizzes This is just a few of their recommendations. Take some time to check out this new list, and find one or two new tools to use with your learners this year! 
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Check out this infographic that looks at how teens and tweens are using social media. It probably comes as no surprise that they are very active in the use of social media. One statistic they show is * Surveys have found that majority or 81 percent of kids aged 12 to 17 use social media. This figure is higher than the 72 percent of internet users overall. For more information click through to the post.
LibrarianLand's curator insight,
May 29, 2014 10:24 AM
According to this article there appears to be a difference between what teens and kids younger than teens prefer as far as social media platforms are concerned.
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"The news media is filled with horror stories about young people and the Internet, but what is often overlooked and not reported are the benefits that technology, the Internet, and Social media have in building and enhancing social-emotional skills."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Once again Jackie Gerstein has written a post about a topical issue that has great depth in both vision and resources. Some of the quotes from research include: "Engaging in various forms of social media is a routine activity that research has shown to benefit children and adolescents by enhancing communication, social connection, and even technical skills." "Social media sites allow teens to accomplish online many of the tasks that are important to them offline: staying connected with friends and family, making new friends, sharing pictures, and exchanging ideas. Social media participation also can offer adolescents deeper benefits that extend into their view of self, community, and the world," Along with the bibliography she also provides links to other posts she has written on this issue (and links to some posts by others) as well as links to a new website she has created that has activities that use technology to enhance social-emotional skills.
Randy D. Nichols's curator insight,
February 26, 2013 1:51 PM
As a complement to reading Nicholas Carr? 
Joe T.'s curator insight,
February 26, 2013 2:00 PM
This is an advancement as previous websites of the 1.0 have not helped benefit young people.
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The American Association of School Librarians has just released their "Top 25" Websites that "foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover." For each category they have provided a link to 21st century learning standards. The six categories are: * Media Sharing * Digital Storytelling
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Educators are doing amazing things with their learners in spite of (i.e., to show spite toward) the standards-based and accountability-driven movements. I’ve learned about so many exciting learning activities from educators who are publicizing their great projects via Twitter, Facebook, and Blogs. I’ve read about global collaborations, interesting ways technology is being integrated into the classroom, kids making a difference in their communities, and great project-based learning.
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We are the Digital Media & Learning Research Hub and our team is dedicated to analyzing and interpreting the impact of the internet, social networking and digital media on learning, participatory politics and youth culture. You can learn more about the work of the research hub at dmlcentral.net. Our goal with this site is to aggregate the compelling research, news and opinion in the digital media and learning field and provide a dependable, up to date, one-stop publication.
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Due to the interest of my post The Other 21st Skills, I decided to individually discuss each of the skills or dispositions I proposed that are in addition to the seven survival skills as identified...
Beth Dichter's insight:
After a break Jackie Gerstein has returned with a new post that looks at self-regulation. What does Gersteing mean when she talks about self-regulation. She lists eight characteristics. Three are below. * Uses metacognitive processes * Regulates and controls emotional and cognitive processes * Manages time for one’s own benefit After providing the list of 8 characteristic she shares strategies to help students "build and expand their self-regulation skills. Providing students with "metacognitive reflective questions both pre and post activity to help students learn about self-regulation. Self-regulation has three phases, and she shares a visual about the three phases as well as clear descriptions. The post goes on to cover additional strategies and also has an excellent SlideShare on Teaching Children Self-Reguation. At the end of the post she discusses self-regulation as a 21st century skill and learning activities for young people. As always Gerstein's post are chock full of additional links. Educate yourself and teachers in your building by sharing this informative post.
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"If you’re like us, the term “social engineering” may not have entered your tool kit for teaching digital citizenship. According to Wikipedia, it is the psychological manipulation to get people to divulge confidential information by building a sense of trust. In the current digital environment, it is used for the purpose of gathering information or access to data via the Internet."
Beth Dichter's insight:
When you think about teaching digital citizenship does the concept of teaching 'social engineering' come up as a topic to discuss? This post suggests that you look at this as a portion of your curriculum. Along with the infographic Hacking the Mind (shown above) there is also an embedded motion graphic, Social Engineering. With students being very active in social media it is important that they also understand social engineering, and these two resources are great tools to bring into your classroom to help them gain that understanding.
Maryalice Leister's curator insight,
September 26, 2013 8:33 AM
This ties in with cyberbullying when you consider the power of social media and how social engineering gives both those with good intentions and those whose purposes are not as golden a platform for control. Read and share!
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Are we living in a world of information overload or information abundance? This post by Jackie Gerstein poses suggests we look at this as a time of information abundance. "... we have technologies to access any type of information and to create products that match the pictures and voices in our minds; and we can use technology to get the assistance and feedback from folks around the globe." In this post she looks at the implications this has for education, exploring five points (quoted below): * Educators are no longer gatekeepers to information. * The Internet needs tobe open and available to students. * Information and media literacy needs to be integrated across the curriculum and grade levels. * Global-oriented and mulitcultural education also needs to be integrated across the curriculum and grade levels. * Students developing their own Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) should be viewed as major instructional strategy. Additional resources are referenced in the post.
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My thoughts on a proposed social media policy for school employees (Part 2) | Dangerously Irrelevant
Scott McLeod shares his thoughts, as well as feedback he received from a previous post, on a school district employee social media policy. This is an issue that more and more school districts are addressing. Early on McLeod states "I put this policy before my 28,000+ educational technology-savvy readers to solicit their reactions. While some of them thought parts of the policy were okay, many concerns were expressed as well. My overarching issues are listed immediately below. My point-by-point concerns and those of my readers are listed at the end of this message." Read on for a detailed look at issues that may arise when writing a social media policy for school district employees.
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"As our lives become increasingly digital, many of us share more and more on social media sites. Consequently, employers and colleges have started to request access to our personal profiles as a way to learn more about us. Should the same standards of privacy we've come to expect offline apply online? Take a look."
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Technology Director Anthony A. Luscre of Mogadore Local Schools challenges educators to use students' mobile devices to provide technology-rich, highly engaging, and fun learning experiences that reflect real-world skills. Check out the 10 Ways To Use Texting, Tweeting & Social Networking To Spice Up Instruction on page 2 of the article for great ideas.
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The American Association of School Librarians shares their top websites for 2015 in this post. The websites are in six areas:
* Media Sharing
* Digital Storytelling
* Manage & Organize
* Social Networking & Communication
* Content Resources
* Curriculum Collaboration
As always you will find great new tools and they provide a brief explanation as well as a suggestion of grade levels. A few that you may want to check out are listed below.
* Tackk allows you to create web pages quickly, and is free!
* My Storybook allows students to create online books and would be great to use with younger students.
* FlipQuiz allows you create game-style quizzes
This is just a few of their recommendations. Take some time to check out this new list, and find one or two new tools to use with your learners this year!
The American Association of School Librarians shares their top websites for 2015 in this post. The websites are in six areas:
* Media Sharing
* Digital Storytelling
* Manage & Organize
* Social Networking & Communication
* Content Resources
* Curriculum Collaboration
As always you will find great new tools and they provide a brief explanation as well as a suggestion of grade levels. A few that you may want to check out are listed below.
* Tackk allows you to create web pages quickly, and is free!
* My Storybook allows students to create online books and would be great to use with younger students.
* FlipQuiz allows you create game-style quizzes
This is just a few of their recommendations. Take some time to check out this new list, and find one or two new tools to use with your learners this year!