25 items | 12 visits
This is a list of resources for educators, parents and students.
Updated on May 20, 11
Created on Feb 08, 11
Category: Schools & Education
URL:
Michelle Luhtala's List: TEAM21: Teachers 4 Ed Access 2 Media 4 21st C Learning
-
Feb 08, 11
Airtime: Wed. Jan. 19 2011 | :00:0 11 ET
With more than half a billion users around the world, Facebook has altered our everyday lives for better or worse, and in ways we may not even recognize. Correspondent Lester Holt explores the real story behind the $50 billion dollar social network juggernaut. -
Feb 09, 11
The internet is now deeply embedded in group and organizational life in America. A new national survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has found that 75% of all American adults are active in some kind of voluntary group or organization, and internet users are more likely than others to be active: 80% of internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-internet users. And social media users are even more likely to be active: 82% of social network users and 85% of Twitter users are group participants.
-
Feb 10, 11
Summary: Cathy Swan, one the technology integration teachers at New Canaan High School and I collaborated on this presentation for a Feb. 10, 2011 Parent Faculty Association meeting about students' use of facebook. We had some parent concerns, "I believe my 16-year-old is not able to know when enough is enough with facebook. While doing her homework, her FB account is open, her phone is receiving text messages, her i-tunes account is playing and sometimes she even has a movie in the background! I am a fan of social media, but I am concerned that it is taking over her life and contributing to her burn out." and "I am a very knowledgeable technology (and social media) user. I do not like Facebook at all (but use it JUST for Family as they are located in other countries). The vast majority of parents and children do NOT know how info that they're making available." Are acouple of examples. It is our hope that this presentation allays their fears and helps them understand that our goal in allowing students to access social media in school is to help them better navigate it and use it for productivity.
-
Feb 10, 11
This survey originated at New Canaan High School. My colleague Cathy Swan and I originally designed it as a parent questionnaire in preparation for a Parent Faculty Association meeting about educational applications for social media in high school. It morphed into a student survey in mid-December 2010, and it was posted on the New Canaan High School Library website. Within a month, almost 400 New Canaan High School students responded – sans prompting. Their answers are posted below, Teens Talk About Facebook. This revised version of the survey is intended for wide circulation. Please send it to all young people you know. Here is a direct link, if you don't want to direct them to this blog <http://bit.ly/yfilter>. Cathy also put together a survey for educators, and she is still collecting responses. That survey's link is (not coincidentally) <http://tinyurl.com/yfilter>. Share away! We will post responses to both here on February 28th. -
Feb 10, 11
This is a a teacher survey bout social media censorship in k-12 schools. It has been circulating since February 2010, and we were hoping for more responses than what we have so far. Please disseminate!
-
Feb 10, 11
This is a list of application and sites that can help students focus on school work for set time periods. "If only finding focus were so simple. With a tidal wave of information coming at us daily, focus is rapidly becoming the scarcest commodity of the 21st century. With this in mind, I’ve rounded up a handful of the best apps for fighting back against the constant distractions of our digital lives."
-
List Comments
(0)
List Info