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6 tips and 1 activity to help students engage as digital citizens
12/28/2018
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Educator and author Kristen Mattson, Ed.D., has a bone to pick with a lot of the digital citizenship curricula used in schools today. Too much of it, she says, focuses on what not to do,…
Digital citizenship IRL
11/28/2018
Topics: Digital Citizenship
Or, how being in the BTS ARMY shows you the future your students will live.
" "I'd like to ask all of you, what is your name? What excites you and makes your heart beat? Tell me your story.…
5 doable goals for Digital Citizenship Week
10/15/2018
Topics: Digital Citizenship
Internet safety, online privacy, cyberbullying, media balance, online relationships, news and media literacy — digital citizenship topics tackle big questions. It can feel daunting to integrate lessons on these weighty topics into your already-packed classroom agendas. But does it have…
4 ways to fuel your #DigCitCommit
09/28/2018
Topics: Digital Citizenship
Just like New Year’s resolutions, the goals teachers set for themselves throughout the year can sometimes become buried under a mountain of daily tasks.
At ISTE 2018,…
6 ways to help students manage their smartphones
09/11/2018
Topics: Assessment, BYOD, Computational Thinking, Curriculum, Digital Citizenship, Flipped learning, ISTE Standards for Educators, ISTE Standards for Students, Learning spaces, Mobile learning, Online learning, Parent engagement, professional learning, Technology infrastructure, Tools
Helping students manage smartphone use might not seem like the type of subject that schools should be teaching. But given how widespread cell phone use is among teens and how broadly devices…
Project Citizen: Bring civic engagement to your classroom
08/21/2018
Topics: Digital Citizenship, ISTE Standards for Students, Project-based learning
Student activists at Florida’s Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High, who attracted global attention by demanding better gun laws after 17 of their classmates were killed inspired some Eugene, Oregon, students to take on a civic engagement project of their own.
The…
Address global problems locally with place-based learning
08/08/2018
Topics: Digital Citizenship
Most of us have heard of the movement to think globally and act locally, but what about using the power of place to personalize learning?
Place-based learning allows student to solve community problems while being immersed in local heritage, cultures and environments to study language…
Coaches and librarians: Sneak digital citizenship into lessons!
07/23/2018
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Coaches and library media specialists are often go-to experts for educators seeking instructional support and help with tech integration, but they can also be leaders on one of education’s most important topics – digital citizenship.
And there’s even…
3 tools to help students create, collaborate and share ideas!
07/09/2018
Topics: Digital Citizenship
One of the hottest topics in education today focuses on digital citizenship, or what it means to be a member of the connected world we live in.
According to the ISTE Standards for Students, digital…
It's time to commit to digital citizenship!
07/04/2018
Topics: Digital Citizenship, Standards
All she wanted was a new dress for senior prom.
But when 18-year-old Kristen Lane posted a picture of herself wearing her old prom dress on social media, hoping to sell it to raise funds, she received a relentless barrage of hateful comments about her appearance instead.…