An aggregated reading list of the best, in-depth thinking from around the web on the impact of technology and social media, curated by Nathan Jurgenson and Cyborgology. “Paul Miller was never more aware of the internet than when he…
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A Simple Acronym For Encouraging Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship, as we’ve theorized, has something to do with the “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.” In education, we love acronyms and initialisms–IEP,…
A 10th Grader Explains How Social Media Can Replace Textbooks
This article was written by Noa Gutow-Ellis, a high school sophomore in Houston, Texas. She’s passionate about all things related to the Arab Spring and 21st Century Education. As an 8th grader, Noa gave a TEDx talk about the…
The Impact Of Technology Reading List: Identity & Media Consumption
An aggregated reading list of the best, in-depth thinking from around the web on the impact of technology and social media, curated by Nathan Jurgenson and Cyborgology. “On the whole, academia is quite anti-popular writing” “Mainstream sociology & history…
The Honest-To-Goodness Beginner’s Guide To Twitter For Teachers
So you’ve heard a lot about this twitter thing, but you’re not sure if it’s worth your time. Or are you suspect it might be, but aren’t sure where to dive in, or how to…
Introducing The #LearnBetter TweetChat For Progressive Learning
-Join us for a TeachThought Twitter Chat #LearnBetter- Thursday, April 25, 2013 7pm EST What is a Twitter chat? A twitter chat is a group of people getting together at the same time to discuss…
The Impact Of Technology Reading List: The Billions Of–And On–Social Media
An aggregated reading list of the best, in-depth thinking from around the web on the impact of technology and social media, curated by Nathan Jurgenson and Cyborgology. “There’s a strong, specifically technocratic conflation between efficiency and good in Silicon…
What Kind Of World Are We Preparing Students For?
by Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern Most educators can agree that the biggest trend in education today has to do with technology integration. As more and more schools find ways to use technology in the…
How Technology Is Changing How Teachers Communicate With Students
As technology becomes more commonplace in classrooms, teachers from preschool to higher education are finding innovative ways to use technology to provide feedback to their students. Some educators rely on popular tablet computers to communicate…
Social Learning: What To Manage In Learning & What To Leave Alone
Management is a dodgy technology for the 21st century. Daniel Pink’s words, not mine, but it’s true. Management is a construct of industrialization. To be fair, it has a role anywhere: networks, sports team, software,…
Twitter For Learning: 7 Ideas For Using Hashtags In The Classroom
By Anibal Pacheco, TeachThought intern Twitter For Learning: 7 Ideas For Using Hashtags In The Classroom If you are an Educator looking to use Twitter in the classroom you might have noticed most tweets include…
25 Helpful Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts
If you love twitter but hate carpal tunnel, this infographic might help: 25 twitter keyboard shortcuts. Twitter has a variety of such shortcuts (e.g., CTRL-C for “Copy,” CTRL-V for “Paste,” etc.) that can help you…















