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Empowering digital citizens with real-life scenarios
07/23/2019
Topics: Digital & media literacy, Digital Citizenship
Has North Carolina’s Ravenscroft School found a better way to teach digital citizenship? Edtech leader Sarah Loyola thinks so.
When Loyola came to Ravenscroft in August 2017 as its first director…
Teen helps create social media lessons
07/12/2019
Topics: Digital Citizenship, Social media
When Laurel, a 12-year-old from North Carolina, bumped into the CEO of The Social Institute – an organization devoted to helping kids navigate social media – the sixth-grader just wanted to thank her for her…
Coding + Math
Topics: Curriculum, Digital Citizenship, Literacies
Strengthen K–5 Math Skills With Computer Science
Product code: CSMATH
ISBN: 9781564848253
Expected publication date: 03/2020
Topics: Coding & robotics, STEM & STEAM, Computational thinking, Curriculum, Standards
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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…
5 myths of online student privacy
01/28/2019
Topics: Digital Citizenship
One of my greatest challenges as a technology integrator is helping teachers overcome their fears of letting students engage with the digital world around them. Students want to use the…
Digital citizenship starts with the person not the tool!
01/03/2019
Topics: Digital Citizenship
Why do we do what we do? It's an age-old question. From getting too close to a fire to getting online excessively, our decisions aren't always good for us.
There is a model for understanding that irrational, sometimes frustrating, human behavior. It's…
The 10 best edtech posts of 2018
12/31/2018
Topics: Coding & robotics, Digital Citizenship, Tools
What do educators love to read about? Judging from the most popular posts that appeared on the ISTE Blog in 2018, they are looking for ideas and strategies for…
7 tips for helping students develop emotional intelligence
02/18/2020
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital Citizenship, social-emotional learning
Part of growing up is developing empathy, the ability to understand the feelings of others. It starts in kindergarten when we learn to share the crayons. As we get older, we learn to include others on the playground to avoid hurt feelings and begin to relate to those who are different than we…
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…
7 tips and 1 activity to help digital citizens engage with empathy
09/23/2020
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,…