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Get Free Digital Literacy Resources — Curated Just for You!
09/27/2021
Topics: Digital & media literacy
Teachers, perhaps you can relate to this scenario:
You recognize that your students could use some help with evaluating information sources for credibility, bias and influence, one important…
Digital Citizenship Lessons Start With a Simple Conversation
10/18/2021
Topics: Digital Citizenship
Do you remember the public service announcements from the mid-2010s that featured different scenarios of parents (sometimes awkwardly) talking to their children about underage drinking?
If this doesn’t…
How To Teach Information Literacy
03/05/2020
Topics: Digital & media literacy, ISTE Expert Webinars, Librarians
As a school librarian and technology specialist, Caitlin McLemore took particular interest in a 2016 study…
Educators: Help parents talk to their kids about tech
02/25/2020
Topics: Digital Citizenship
The average public school student in the U.S. spends about 6.5 hours in school a day, 180 days a year. That may seem like a…
Digital citizenship: From don’ts to do’s to seamless integration
02/07/2020
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital Citizenship
The concept of digital citizenship has evolved and changed along with edtech. It has gone from a list of don’ts…
How To Empower — Not Scare! — Parents About Technology
09/23/2021
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital Citizenship, Parents
It’s a very stressful experience to have an audience member stand up, say you’re wrong and walk out in the middle of your presentation. Fortunately, that’s only happened to me once, but when…
3 Tips for Balanced Digital Wellness
02/25/2021
Topics: Balance, Digital Citizenship, Digital health and wellness
The digital landscape has changed lifestyles for people of all ages. Many of these changes are positive and empowering: They’ve increased access to education and information and provided new tools for…
One Way To Find Digital Balance: Pause for People
05/01/2021
Topics: Digital Citizenship
It seems like almost every day my morning newsfeed greets me with at least one “think piece” from someone sharing insights on their most recent digital detox. Almost always the authors want to use their phones…
Reflective observation essential part of digital citizenship lessons
06/13/2019
Topics: Digital Citizenship
John Dewey, the influential education reformer and psychologist, is often quoted as saying that we don’t learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience. That statement applies just as much today…
Preventing collisions at the intersection of creativity and copyright
04/18/2019
Creativity powers the best classrooms.
Teachers tapping new ideas and tools create better ways to facilitate learning, while their students gain knowledge, make intellectual connections and…