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What happens when middle schoolers take to Twitter? They become learners

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imageCan social media help students learn?Mark Dries, CC BY-NC-ND

Fully 92 percent of American teenagers go online daily. More than half of them do so several times a day and a quarter are online “almost constantly.”

I’m a mother of two teenagers who fall into that latter category. And as a parent and a teacher educator, I work on ways...

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