A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

Topic: social media

    • New York Times
    • 06/17/24
    “The United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, announced on Monday that he would push for a warning label on social media platforms advising parents that using the platforms might damage adolescents’ mental health.”
    • Chronicle of Higher Ed
    • 05/30/24
    ““Who’s the target audience?” I’d ask in class, followed with an ominous, “And why does that matter?” Contemplating everything from a Harper’s essay to an early Lana Del Rey video, my Gen Z students propose: “It targets Gen Z,” even when that seems all but impossible… Forty years after Postman decried the nation’s passivity in […]

ADOLESCENCE

AI

ATHENA

CURRICULUM

DIVERSITY/INCLUSION

HEALTH

HUMANITIES

LANGUAGE

    • Nautilus
    • 07/06/17
    A case in point is research commissioned by the dating site Match.com in the United States. In the fifth annual Singles in America report, researchers investigated the relationship between emoji usage and sexual conquests—the first survey of its kind to do so. The survey polled over 5,600 singles—all non-Match.com subscribers—whose socio-economic and ethnic profiles were […]

LEARNING SCIENCE

PEDAGOGY

READING/WRITING

SELECT

SOCIAL MEDIA

STEM

TECH

TECHNOLOGY

TEXT

VISUAL DESIGN

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

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Peter Nilsson

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