Category Archives: social media

Infographic: Students have their say on online rights and responsibilities

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Sylvia Martinez

Check out the results of the 2013 ‘Have your Say’ survey, the UK’s largest ever survey of young people’s attitudes toward online rights and responsibilities. Over 24,000 young people age 7-19 from across the UK responded to the survey, and … Continue reading →

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Social media and peer learning

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Sylvia Martinez

Here is the archive of the Connected Learning webinar I participated in recently. Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy Discover how giving students more responsibility in shaping their own curriculum can lead to more active participation. … Continue reading →

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Free webinar - Social Media and Peer Learning

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Sylvia Martinez

Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy Discover how giving students more responsibility in shaping their own curriculum can lead to more active participation. I’m going to be on the panel for this webinar from Connected Learning, … Continue reading →

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New Pew Internet Reports: Teens, Social Networks, Privacy and Parents

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Sylvia Martinez

New Pew Report: Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully … Continue reading →

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Report: School Principals and Social Networking

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

via press release: A new research report was issued today that summarizes the results of an extended look at school principals’ use of social networking. The underlying research for the report, “School Principals and Social Networking in Education: Practices, Policies, … Continue reading →

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Technology policy and human nature

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

“Please do the following: sit down with your child (and they are just children still) and tell them that they are not allowed to be a member of any social networking site. Today! Let them know that you will at … Continue reading →

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While you read this… watch the world change

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

In the last 10 seconds, 9 iPhones were sold, 90 people joined Facebook, 100 blog posts were created, 6,000 people joined a “social game,” 7,000 tweets were tweeted, 125,000 videos were watched on YouTube, and 2,00,000 SMS text messages were … Continue reading →

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