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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

While it can be hard to keep up with every trend in educational technology, the mindset you have when it comes to classroom tech matters just as much as which ones you use. So, why and how should you use technology in your classroom? What Is the Proper Role of Technology in the Classroom?

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

Waterford

That’s why it’s important for teachers, whether they’re digital immigrants or digital natives themselves, to change the traditional approach to learning. How Digital Natives Process Information in the Classroom. To the typical digital native, learning comes from doing, not from a lecture.[2] Edutopia.org.

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How to Set Healthy Screen Time Habits: A Guide for Parents

Waterford

While older generations needed to learn how to use digital media, our children face a different task: managing and using screen time in healthy ways. October 14-18 is Digital Citizenship Week , so now is the perfect time to talk with children about healthy screen time habits. Pediatrics, July 2010, 126(1), pp.

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New Posted Resources 10/14/2010

The Web20Classroom

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Cyberbullying Prevention for the Classroom

Securly

Though seemingly verbose, these components are quite simple and perfectly adaptable to everyday classroom culture. Implementing social media safety measures and monitoring your child’s online activity are just some of the many ways to do so. Harassment need not be based on a specific characteristic to be considered bullying.

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Getting the Digital Generation to Read Over the Summer

edWeb.net

Teachers can post signs in their classrooms about their own personal summer reading list, which students can ask them about before leaving for the summer, or when they return in the fall. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award.

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The Nuts and Bolts of Digital Civic Imagination

Educator Innovator

In the fluid uses of what I call digital civic imagination , the #BlackLivesMatter meme has moved across social media platforms and online networks and become a rallying cry in demonstrations and protests fueling participatory politics in cities across the country.

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