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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

Focus on citizenship: Focus your technology-based lessons on teaching your students digital citizenship, or skills that will help them thoughtfully and effectively navigate digital media.[12]. Be sure to introduce your students to Internet safety and elements of digital citizenship as a key focus.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

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This conclusion was reinforced by Feutz (2001). She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Case Study Resources for Modern Teachers

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2001, October 5). She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. [link] Teaching by the case Method – Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning – Harvard Business School. link] Bio: Maggie S.

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How to Cope with Bullying

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Hawkins, Pepler, and Craig, 2001 ). The best way to teach cyberbullying is as part of a unit on digital citizenship’s rights and responsibilities. When students use the internet, they likely only consider the benefits–what are called the ‘digital rights’–like these (from D.

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Top 10 Study Group Forums and Websites for High School Students

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Physics Forum began as a high school extra credit assignment in 2001, and since then, it’s developed into one of the most popular and helpful science forums on the web. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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How Three Nonprofits Are Connecting Kids With Diverse Mentors During the Pandemic

Edsurge

Online courses like ours had been growing in popularity as spaces for kids to have fun while developing tech and digital citizenship skills and learning about art, history, science and more. Students from across the U.S.

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How to Keep Kids From Being Mean Online

Edsurge

I started working with teens in 2001 on organization and time management, and when they first came into my office, they would tell me their biggest distractions were food, sleep, their pets, and daydreaming, and about a decade ago, that really shifted. EdSurge: Tell us a little bit about your background, and what got you into this work.