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How to Grow Global Digital Citizens

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With the rise of online games, web-based education, and smartphones that access everything from house lights to security systems, it’s not surprising to read these statistics: In 2013, 71 percent of the U.S. These are the global demands of digital citizenship. population age 3 and over used the Internet.

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The 9 essential elements of digital citizenship

eSchool News

According to a recent Common Sense Media’s study , the percentage of children ages eight and under who’ve used a mobile device nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, from 38 percent to 72 percent. But as a baseline, Ribble also outlines nine essential elements of digital citizenship that every student should know.

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

Waterford

By learning to view it as a means of enhancing your lessons and resources, you can provide your students with tools and opportunities they may not otherwise access. Benefits of Using Tech and Digital Media in Education. 17] If you’re unable to go on a field trip, for example, you can access plenty of virtual field trips at no cost.[16]

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Teaching digital citizenship across the whole curriculum

eSchool News

Teaching digital citizenship as a “one-off event” doesn’t lead to changes in behavior, experts say. When we teach digital citizenship as a one-off event like a presentation or an assembly, everybody gets all hyped up—and then it disappears over time,” he said. “But Managing an online identity.

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How Instructional Technology Coaching Can Help Teachers Create Powerful Learning Experiences

Digital Promise

Ottenbreit-Leftwich in their 2013 study of authentic technology-enabled learning, highlights the main challenge coaches face when trying to support teachers using technology. Research has shown that in schools that serve low-income students and students of color, technology use still primarily looks like completing digital worksheets.

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7 Tech Tools for PE Teachers

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Here’s what the NY Times reports: Better fitness proved to be linked to significantly higher achievement scores — a 2013 study reported in PubMed.org. It incorporates exercise intervals (H.I.I.T + Tabata) and provides access to a real trainer for advice. Here are my favorite websites and apps: AnatomyYou. iOS, Android.

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How to Cope with Bullying

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McCallion and Feder, 2013 ). 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. Right to digital access.