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

Waterford

Communicate with parents through tech: Use digital resources (like apps, texts, or social media groups) to keep parents informed about class activities and upcoming assignments.[10]. Be active: Prioritize active digital activities, like online learning games or interactive lessons, over passive activities, like watching a video.

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

Waterford

And finally, use school technology to teach your students digital citizenship.[14] 14] Broadly defined, digital citizenship is the safe, ethical, informed, and responsible use of technology.[16] Most of today’s students are digital natives and have grown up around technology for their entire life. and Mouza, C.

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How to Cope with Bullying

Ask a Tech Teacher

Petrosina, Guckenburg, DeVoe, and Hanson, 2010 ). Davis and Nixon, 2010 ). It includes not only websites, but cell phones, Nintendo, and Wii, as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites. More on cyberbullying and digital citizenship.

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Positive, Negative or Neutral? Crucial Conversations on Digital Citizenship

The Principal of Change

Sharing the “positives” was not what social media was for. There is part of me where I struggle with suggesting how others use social media. I tweeted the following while listening to Alec Couros (my brother) and Dean Shareski at ISTE recently: The notion of “digital citizenship” is so messy.

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Crucial “Digital Citizenship” Conversations

The Principal of Change

Simply writing off the legitimate uses of social media based on archaic beliefs that it is harmful to students just will not do anymore as schools, such as Burlington, are utilizing the many benefits of social networking. “Twitter is one of the most powerful social media tools in the world.

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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

The rest of my favorite links are here.'