Gaggle Speaks

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Our story as a mother-son digital citizenship team began long before we created our combined @CurranCentral account almost a year ago. We put these words into action and, as a mother/son team, we co-moderate Twitter chats on digital citizenship and student voice. Curran is the founder of the Digital Citizenship Institute.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 18, 2017

Yet, as bothersome as this scenario would be to some (including myself), many have no issues with taking away devices from students in classrooms that not only have access to all of the information in the world but access to one another. Recently, I saw this powerful video from 2011, and it reminded me of how much we take for granted.

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edWeb.net

JULY 18, 2017

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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As more of our lives are consumed with digital technology — social media, texting and smartphones — is it any wonder that our children are growing up with electronic gadgets as companions? In 2011, 22 percent of students starting high school had a smartphone; by 2015, the number rocketed to 68 percent.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

The award-winning classroom teachers at my table wondered too. The whole conversation brought me back a blog post I wrote following ISTE’s 2011 conference in Philadelphia. In the years since 2011, I’ve seen librarians emerge to assume roles of increasing leadership in so many areas. So do classroom teachers.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 9, 2015

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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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

Get ready for an action-packed day of economic discussion with classrooms across the country on Twitter @ DiscoveryEd with the #PowerofEcon hashtag: 10AM: The Power of People examines the three-part mini-documentary series from Seeker Stories. Join the #PowerofEcon Events on April 26. How You Can Participate in #PowerofEcon.

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TeacherCast

MAY 27, 2019

Since 2011, ScreenFlow has been the Screencasting Application of choice for the TeacherCast Educational Network and today we will look at key features that set Screenflow apart in the video production category. Create Animated Gif's and Animated PNG's to share on Social Media. Standard 3: Model digital age work and learning.

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Tech Helpful

MAY 23, 2019

Helping students to develop appropriate digital citizenship skills is an imperative part of the educational process not only for their own safety and legal obligations but for the care of others as well. Teaching digital citizenship is probably the easiest standard to meet without technology itself.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. They struggle with facts about social studies. This too has been a long time in the making.

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