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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Start Networking!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To get a better understanding of complex networks, students create their own, real social network example by interacting with their peers in the classroom and documenting the interactions. They represent the interaction data as a graph,...
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Online Identity

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is your online identity? Do you share too much on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace? Learn safe behavors to follow when you are online to prevent cyberbullying and identity theft.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graph Theory in Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use graph theory to create social graphs for their own social networks and apply what learn to create a graph representing the social dynamics found in a dramatic text. Students then derive meaning based on what they know about...
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Article
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center: Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the findings from a research study on how teens use popular social media and social networking sites. The study looked at the different sites, tools, and apps that are being used, with Facebook ranking the highest. It also...
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Article
American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association: Social Media's Growing Impact on Our Lives

For Students 9th - 10th
Media psychology researchers are beginning to tease apart the ways in which time spent on social media is, and is not, impacting our day-to-day lives and our psychological well-being. They are looking at whether time spent on social...
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Bitesize: How Ict Has Changed Communication and Collaboration

For Students 6th - 8th
Computers and the internet have changed how people work, communicate, and share information, but we need to understand the advantages and disadvantages of sharing online. This tutorial looks at email, video conferencing, online document...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Online Technology to Explore Characterization and Style

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use social networking sites to trace the development of characters by assuming the persona of a character on the class Ning and sending a set number of tweets, or status updates.
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Other

Connect Safely: Connect Safely: Smart Socializing Starts Here

For Teachers K - 1st
This resource offers students and adults information in order to help young people socialize safely online.
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Article
CNN

Cnn Money: Twitter, Pipe Dream or Next Big Thing?

For Students 9th - 10th
Twitter has taken the world by storm, even made its name a verb, but are they challenged late in the game to try making money from the service? This article examines this question in depth.
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Other

Art Education 2.0: Using New Technology in Art Classrooms

For Students 9th - 10th
Art Education 2.0 is a social networking site for art teachers run by university professor Craig Roland. Find answers, inspiration, and more from dozens of other art teachers just like yourself who have questions and ideas to share.
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Article
Time

Time: 5 Trends That Will Change How You Use Social Media in 2015

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at potential changes in 2015 in how people use social media. These include tools to make financial transactions, new types of networks, shopping features, social networking features on more smart devices, and the demand for more...
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Article
Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Your Connected Life: A Teen's Guide to Life Online [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide is designed to help students who are just entering high school balance the demands their offline life with their digital one. The guide offers practical advice on a variety of activities kids like to do online, including...
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Interactive
Federal Trade Commission

On Guard Online: Friend Finder

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge about internet safety while playing this fun interactive game designed to see if you can pick the right friends on social networking websites. Be sure to click on the link for helpful tips.
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Unit Plan
Learn My Way

Learn My Way: Using Facebook

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online course, students will learn all about the social network Facebook. They will learn how to set-up a Facebook account, keep the account safe, create a Facebook profile, find friends and family, and how to post messages,...
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Interactive
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Meetup

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, learn more about navigating this popular in-person networking site, which finds people with similar interests.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Complex Networks and Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about complex networks and how to represent them using graphs. They also learn that graph theory is a useful mathematical tool for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, such as...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Making the Connection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graph theory is a visual way to represent relationships between objects. One of the simplest uses of graph theory is a family tree that shows how different people are related. Another application is social networks like Facebook, where a...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Processes on Complex Networks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Building on their understanding of graphs, young scholars are introduced to random processes on networks. They walk through an illustrative example to see how a random process can be used to represent the spread of an infectious disease,...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Curb the Epidemic!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a website simulation tool, students build on their understanding of random processes on networks to interact with the graph of a social network of individuals and simulate the spread of a disease. They decide which two individuals...
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Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies

Famsi: Bitumen Sourcing in the Olmec Region (2004)

For Students 9th - 10th
Study suggests that chemical studies on bitumen (hydrocarbon material) is a feasible method of studying inter-regional trade and social networks. Includes a chart defining archaeological phases of the Olmec Culture.
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Other

Childnet International: Kidsmart

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A comprehensive site on Internet safety for kids. Covers social networking, safe searching, chatting, digital footprints, games, and more. Includes lesson materials for ages 3-11, stories, and videos.
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Other

Teaching History With Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
EdTechTeacher has developed The Center for Teaching History with Technology to offer more opportunities for teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms. They suggest excellent professional development from websites for lesson...
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Professional Doc
Other

Dev Info: Gameworks: Create Your Own Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Playing games online is a great way to encourage creativity and social networking--you might even learn something! But creating an online game is even better. You will learn a brand new process, create a whole new world, and publish a...
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Other

Literacy Works: Thanks to the Web, We're Alone Together and Loving It

For Students 9th - 10th
While this resource was developed to support adult literacy learners, it can easily be used from junior grades and up. After reading an article about how people today interact on the Internet, students complete a variety of vocabulary...

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