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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Whether you teach elementary, core subjects or electives, making digital citizenship part of your instruction is essential for all of your learners. There are nine elements of digital citizenship that you can incorporate into instruction. What are examples of digital citizenship?

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Friday 5: Teacher professional development

eSchool News

While the vast majority of teachers are well schooled in pedagogy, instruction, and assessment, many are not prepared to manage and support students with the increased occurrences of mental health issues and behavioral struggles. Learn more about professional development topics. What is an example of a professional development goal?

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PROOF POINTS: The surprising effectiveness of having kids study why they failed

The Hechinger Report

The other half of their classmates studied the same algebra topics in a different way. They received no instruction and worked independently. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors. Then, the two groups swapped.

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How Much Screen Time is Okay for Kids on the Evenings and Weekends?

Ask a Tech Teacher

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends: Ages 0-18 months: No screen time at all, except for video chatting. Ages 18-24 months: One hour of high-quality, interactive screen time per day, such as educational programming or video chatting. Screen time for kids is a huge discussion among parents and teachers.

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Helpful Tips to Integrate Media Literacy in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

With the pervasive spread of the Internet and web technologies, digital media consumption and production practises have acquired new critical dimensions. The purpose of this post is to introduce you to this concept, provide you with some definitions of what it is, and discuss some ways to integrate it in your instruction.

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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Over the past two decades, Twitter has been a mainstay in my instruction. .

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

Her contributions include developing literacy implementation and professional development services, leading gold-standard research initiatives, instructional design of a reading intervention program for striving adolescent readers, and an intensive reading intervention program for phonics, phonemic awareness, and fluency development.

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