10 social media-inspired learning activities: no accounts necessary
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French court rules that authorities can scan social media posts for evidence of tax evasion
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In brief: Authorities are always looking for advantages in their battle against tax dodgers, and it seems France’s government just got such a boon. Thanks to a recent ruling from the country’s Constitutional Court, tax...
Learning in a Course Versus Social Media
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Differentiating Course and Community Both coursework and interactions in online learning communities, such as social media, are concerned with literacies. Song “pluralizes the word” literacy to denote the multiple literacies...
Ethical Educators & Social Media
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Social media has been around for a long time now. Maybe it was around, maybe you were on social media before you were a teacher? If so, it might be check-up time to make sure you are using social media as an Ethical Educator. Ta...
I Deleted All My Social Accounts: Three Weeks Without Social Media
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To say that a lot of people use social media is an understatement. At last count, Facebook had more than 2.4 billion monthly active users, Instagram had 1 billion, Twitter had around 330 million, and Snapchat boasted 310.7 million...
Hideo Kojima wins Guinness World Records for social media following
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Japanese video game director Hideo Kojima recently took home a pair of Guinness World Records for his sizable social media following. The records-keeping body recently acknowledged Kojima as having the most followers on Twitter fo...
‘What is the Clips app on an iPhone?’: How to use your iPhone’s free video-editing app, and make custom videos for social media
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The Clips app on your iPhone is a powerful video-editing app that you can use to easily combine videos, photos, titles, and music into videos to share on social media. You can take photos and record videos in Clips, with special...
These 6 tech companies have made the controversial decision to try to operate in China, where the government can demand social media posts be removed or search results be censored
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The US and China are locked in an intensifying cold war, and the global tech industry is at the center of it. The standoff affects everything from supply chains to the sites everyday consumers can use — the US recently banned ...
Facebook takes a big step towards mind-controlled social media
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Facebook has bought a startup specializing in neural interface technology, suggesting it might be interested in building the technology into a future Oculus virtual reality headset. As Bloomberg reports, Facebook bought New York c...
Harvard student was denied entry in the US over friends’ social media activity
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Why it matters: As the number of travelers who are denied entry in the US by Border Patrol gets higher, it’s important to take a look at the reasons why that can happen for you, even if you’re a US citizen. It turns ou...