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New Social Media Micro-credentials Support Social Mobility for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

In the quickly shifting workforce, digital skills have become fundamental for social mobility. In 2017, we partnered with Facebook (now Meta) to design four training modules and micro-credentials in social media marketing. Module 2: Marketing with Facebook Pages. Module 3: Marketing with Facebook Ads.

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Free Editable Facebook Templates for your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

An increasing number of our students use social media and especially Facebook to socialize, connect, and (hopefully) learn. Facebook Templates! Facebook templates, as their name indicates, are templates modelled after Facebook. They are mock up templates that resemble the feel and look of Facebook.

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10 quick thoughts on mobile phones in schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

A few quick thoughts… Most people realize that mobile phones are actually mobile computers. Students know that mobile phones are powerful learning devices. If we had Facebook, texting, Snapchat, and other avenues to alleviate our boredom, we would have turned to them as well. We need to call this for what it is.

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Preserving ‘Academic Mobility’ for Afghan Students and Refugees

Edsurge

Soon all over Afghanistan, Instagram and Facebook accounts were being scrubbed, papers shredded and cellphones buried to hide them from Taliban searches. And it points to the need to preserve academic mobility for those in crisis. And the fear continues: Testifying before the U.S. military withdrawal on Aug. evacuation efforts. “So

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Mobile Schools: The Next Generation in Communication and Engagement

A Principal's Reflections

As an early adopter of transformative technologies, I have been watching the mobile app space carefully to see how it can benefit all facets of education. My vision is for every high school around the country to have its own native mobile app. We envision every school benefiting from having their own native mobile application.

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See What Facebook (Thinks It) Knows About You

ProfHacker

For example, Lee highlighted a ProPublica report on just this topic a couple of years ago, and eight years ago Mark documented how to archive your Facebook data. Anyone can download their data (on a computer, not on mobile) in a pretty straightforward way. If you use Facebook, why not take a peek at what The Machine knows?

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The Post-LMS World: Social, Simple, Modern, Mobile and Student-centric

Edsurge

They need a learning technology that goes beyond Facebook and Instagram to link their learning world with their social world—essentially the content in their LMS combined with chat, video and all those other social tools they love. And of course, in the post-LMS world, learning technology is simple, modern and mobile.

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