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A Note To Staff About K-5 Social Media Use

by Mark October 4, 2011 classroom_management

Folks, Please don’t be shocked when you find out during my Internet Safety class that all or most of your students have personal Facebook accounts. Your class is not alone. We want to foster conversation about how to stay safe online. Admonishing your students that they must be 14 to have a Facebook account simply [...]

K-5 Social Media Use Preliminary Results

by Mark October 4, 2011 cooperative_learning

Five years ago, when I started looking at social networking use in K-5, the numbers worked out like this: 5th Grade = 90%+ 4th Grade = 40% 3rd Grade = One or two students per class, who had older siblings. Today, I’m doing my standard research and found the creep downward of social media use is progressing without hesitation: 5th, 4th, 3th Grade = 90%+ 2nd Grade = 75% 1st Grade = One or two students per class, who had older siblings.

Elementary School Newspaper

by Mark April 11, 2011 classroom_culture

Terracetimes.com started a number of weeks ago. Posts are generated by students, mostly without being assigned. In the lower grades, teachers are pulling together class projects on the curriculum in VoiceThread, MovieMaker, PhotoStory and posting them.

Are their ideas we could take away from this video which could be implemented in an elementary setting?

Good Lord! I’ve Been Filtered Out of Existance

by Mark February 24, 2011 cooperative_learning

I’ve written about the perils of web filtering just 15 days ago: http://clairvoy.com/2011/02/09/the-best-use-of-web-filtering-system/ and it looks like the man has caught up with me.

God forbid if teachers want to get together and discuss how they can better their practice.

Who the hell is making these decisions? What goes in and what stays free? Not a thinking person, we know that much.

Online Professional Development

by Mark December 23, 2010 cooperative_learning

Massive Open Online Course, is one model for online professional collaboration and development which might work well.

How Media Works … A Synopsis

by Mark May 21, 2010 cooperative_learning

Nike captures how new media works–the social aspects–we need to know this. We’re just starting to scratch the surface of the motivating aspects of social media as a tool for learning.

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