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You can't teach empathy — but project-based learning can!
12/28/2018
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Listening to teen journalists pitch story ideas for their daily school newscast, journalism adviser Michael Hernandez noticed a frustrating trend. Students were coming up with unoriginal ideas that missed the real story, often overlooking the perspectives of people less fortunate than…
6 tech and nontech ways to easily bring mindfulness into the classroom
10/09/2019
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital Citizenship
Mindfulness is the practice of paying purposeful, nonjudgmental attention to the present moment. It's a skill that can benefit students far beyond the classroom. Studies have shown the practice enhances focus, may…
Teach digital citizenship all year, every year
04/24/2018
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When students in North Carolina made the news for sharing underage nude photos of each other on Instagram a few years ago, parents didn’t know what to do. School was snowed out, the photos were spreading like wildfire, and teachers had no way to step in and correct the behavior.…
6 tips and 1 activity to help digital citizens engage with empathy
10/15/2019
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital Citizenship, Inclusion
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, and it rarely addresses the opportunities and responsibilities of the digital world. In addition,…
How a 'wildly stupid creative decision' turned this teen into an animator
12/11/2018
Topics: Coding & robotics
Six years ago, a 12-year-old sat frustrated in front of her laptop and decided that she could not animate.
Three years later, she stopped caring and did it anyway.
Hi, that’s me – 18 years old now and fresh out of my final high school exams. Time for me to enter…
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…