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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Young People and Social Networking Services (Leaflet)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a guide for parents, carers and teachers about the safe and responsible use of social networking services. By understanding these services and their potential risks you can help to support your child in choosing an appropriate...
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Other

Childnet International: Digizen: Social Networking

For Students 9th - 10th
Most students participate in social networking applications such as Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter. This site presents the benefits and risks of using social networking tools in education. The site also presents examples of successful...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graphing Your Social Network

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze their social networks using graph theory. They gather data on their own social relationships, either from Facebook interactions or the interactions they have throughout the course of a day, recording it in Microsoft...
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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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Other

Lego: My Lego Network

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Free and safe social networking site dedicated to young students who share the love for the children's building blocks LEGOs. Students create their own page for the purpose of trying challenging blueprints or sharing their own creations.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: It's a Connected World: The Beauty of Network Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including...
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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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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Social Media Theme

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A set of eight activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class. This...
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Get Safe Online

Get Safe Online: Safe Social Networking

For Students 9th - 10th
Social networking sites are very popular. They also expose people to certain risks, such as online bullying, loss of privacy, cyber stalking and other problems. This resource describes some of the risks with social networking sites and...
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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Processes on Complex Networks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Building on their understanding of graphs, students 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, such...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Twitter

For Students 9th - 10th
What is all the fuss about Twitter? Wikipedia provides a detailed overview of the trendy social network.
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Social Media

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how social media impacts our use of technology.
Article
Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Social Media

For Students 9th - 10th
Social media are apps and websites where you can connect and share content with friends. On these services you are often able to share and view a whole range of media such as video, photos, music and chat. Popular social media services...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History

For Students 9th - 10th
Clay Shirky shows how social media services such as Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, thus changing the nature of politics. [15:49]
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New York Times

New York Times: Learning Network: 401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of 401 writing prompts for argumentative writing including topics about social media and cellphones, technology in the schools, gender issues, sports, TV, movies, video games, and much more. W.9-10.10 Write Routinely....
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University of Texas at Austin

Lanic: Latin American Network Information Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Vast network of information from and about Latin America is provided. Major topic headings include countries, economy, education, government, humanities, science, social sciences, society and culture, recreation, media and communication,...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Review Claims About Social Media

For Students 9th Standards
Review claims made in "Teens: This Is How Social Media Affects Your Brain."
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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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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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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

The Anxiety Network

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive resource dealing with Social Anxiety, Panic Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety. Definitions, resources, and treatments for these mental health problems are available.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Social Bookmarking

For Students 9th - 10th
This article introduces the reader to the concept of social bookmarking which organizes sites generally by the use of tags. Social bookmarking sites are an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources...
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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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