In 1951, a football game inspired what would become a landmark study in psychology. Dartmouth opposed Princeton in a brutal end-of-season match that yielded a broken nose, a broken leg, and a flurry of penalties. The game's lack of sportsmanship became the topic of much public debate, with each side blaming the other for the lack of civility on the field.
KQED Learning has launched a new online hub with free professional learning courses and resources focused on media literacy and civic engagement in the digital world.
The days of sitting in one-size-fits-all
professional meetings are dwindling. Whole day, large group professional
development sessions are being replaced with technology-infused collaboration
ripe for lifelong learning. For me, the best part of this shift in professional
learning is the ability to focus on the topics that interest me the most.
In order to be good digital citizens, students must cultivate a filter through which they view their digital lives and understand online communication. To help students build that filter, we must support them in developing a multifaceted awareness consisting of a number characteristics. Here are three of the most important:
Twitterrific is an award-winning Twitter client for iOS that lets users browse Twitter free from the clutter of promoted tweets. Users can use Muffles to hide from their timeline tweets containing words, phrases, people, and hashtags that they don’t want to see.