Flattening the Classroom Walls with Social Media

My sixth grade students have been learning about advanced reading strategies by composing their own interactive eBook about reading instruction. “It would be nice to talk about what we have been finding with an actual author” one of my students mused. “Great idea!” I replied. I handed my iPhone over to allow this ambitious young [...]

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Staggering Facts, Figures and Statistics about Facebook – Infographic

While I was sleeping a few days ago a shepherd in Uzbekistan logged onto the the internet, created a Facebook  account and then took a photo of his favourite sheep to become the one billionth person on the planet to join Facebook. It most probably happened on his iPhone that had been bought online because someone told [...]

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