How Students Can Use Social Media To Actually Learn Real World Skills | Edudemic

See on Scoop.it – Social Media: Changing Our World of Education “The times, they are a changin’  ”. Real world skills are changing, too! Everyone (not just students) needs real world skills, in today’s hectic world: communication,collaboration,social media… See on edudemic.com @Coolwired, on Twitter, for more important Info2go. Thnx for visting!

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3 C’s For Children’s Cyber Safety

 We all want our children and teens to be safe, while surfing the net. Growing up in a digital world makes them susceptible to online predators. This is why good communication skills are so critical. See also Don Tapscott’s  book: “Grown Up Digital”.   It is better by far, to be more cautious, than careless.” As [...]

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Facebook Privacy Tips

This tutorial offers some great privacy tips for everyone! See for yourself. Are you or your family members, an “open book” for would-be troublemakers?      While we like to enjoy social media, like Facebook, and Twitter, it is always a good idea to be cautious when sharing personal information. Young people are especially susceptible to [...]

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Post Comments Using Twitter and Facebook (via WordPress.com News)

FYI- important update from WordPress. Save some steps for posting comments. Use Twitter and/or Facebook sign-ins! Starting today, visitors to your blog can use their Facebook or Twitter account to leave comments. This saves everyone a few steps and gives visitors control over which identity they use.  It’s a win for everyone. As an important [...]

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7 Infobits About The New Learning Commons

   Educause has published this thought-provoking article about the new Learning Commons approach to Education.   Since most people have ”gone to school” in their lifetimes, they profess to be education experts. Interestingly, however, when people get sick, they seek out a Specialist (like a Doctor.) With the New Learning Commons, there are still many questions [...]

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Top 20 Facebook Apps For Book Lovers

Jason Boog at GalleyCat rounds up the Top 20 Facebook Apps for Book Lovers. This comprehensive list will help you pick books, find book clubs, take quizzes, and swap books.Here are the top five from the list: Goodreads Visual Bookshelf weRead aNobii Books App I’m Reading You can check out his post here: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/top-20-book-focused-facebook-apps_b28441  Enjoy! [...]

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Is Social Media Ruining Students?

         This is a rather controversial topic, today, in Education.           Some innovative educators argue in favour of student use of social media, citing an increase in communicating, collaborating, and multi-tasking.           I’m thinking of Don Tapscott and Terry Freedman, among many others.           Others denounce student use of social media, saying it distracts students too [...]

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Social Media Impact During Natural Disasters

Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Floods, Tornados… Telecommunications will be  forever changed. The satellite “eye-in-the-sky” enables people everywhere to upload riveting, real-time reports continually. If you want “breaking news, as it happens”, just log in to AllTop, Twitter,  Facebook, or Google. “Friends” are everywhere.You will even find videos, and satellite images; for example, the before and after images of [...]

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Facebook Privacy: 10 Essential Settings

 10  Settings for Facebook:   apps, sharing,connecting and more! This timely article comes from  Stan Shroeder, writing @ Mashable. It has many valuable tips for you, regarding the ever-growing Facebook. You may already know and use some of these ideas, but I feel that it is always worth exploring new ones. So, what do you do when [...]

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Facebook Insights Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Facebook: attrition; demographics; page views & more! Check out this great guide! http://mashable.com/2010/09/03/facebook-insights-guide/ Credit: Ekaterina  Walter, writing @ Mashable @Coolwired. Thnx for visting!

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