Starting the school year, a meme, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/7-things-to-do-to-start-the-school-year/
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https://eduk8.me/2021/08/pd-or-planning-comic/
It’s distressing to think that the sound of a baby crying reduces our mental agility just at the moment when we most need it. But it helps to take the long view of parenthood and its effects on our intellectual capacities. In her wonderful book The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter, journalist Katherine Ellison reviews…
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Yet another reason to limit Facebook use… Fake news feeder. College admissions – 7 giveaways of student social media use What do college admissions officials look at in a perspective student’s social media feed? Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons – your complete guide Hopefully will answer all of you questions about copyright!
We’ve all been there, clicking on a story, reading it, and then following links to related stories. Soon you are doing searches for the topic, and falling farther and farther down the rabbit’s hole. That’s what happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I came across the Hemingwriter (now called FreeWrite) Kickstarter project….
Since our students are using technology to play, learn, and communicate while at home and at school, they should be learning how to use that technology responsibly. Full integration of digital citizenship (or DigCit) curriculum into every class and every content area—at every grade level—should be the goal to meet this need. Source: How to…