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Digital Citizenship: The Critical Call To Educate and Prepare 21st-Century Learners

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We live in unprecedented times of great digital advances and innovation. Technology is moving and changing rapidly across the world while connecting us in unforeseen ways. Online, teens are not more digitally literate or skilled than adults. However, because technology changes so quickly, it can be challenging to keep up.

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Book Review–My Secret EdTech diary

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Al Kingsley’s My Secret EdTech Diary (John Cott Educational 2021) is a big-goaled, meandering overview of edtech (educational technology) available and pertinent to teachers and students. ” (George Couros, The Innovator’s Mindset, 2015). .” ” (George Couros, The Innovator’s Mindset, 2015).

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10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2015

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million visitors to the 1,454 articles I’ve written on integrating technology into the classroom. 10 Tips for Teachers who Struggle with Technology. 10 Tips for Teachers who Struggle with Technology. Digital Citizenship. 13 Reasons For and 3 Against Technology in the Classroom. Do You Miss Kerpoof?

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National Bullying Prevention Month–October

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Wikipedia defines “cyberbullying” as: the use of information technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner. million people (and counting) have watched this video since it was published in September 2015. 120+ Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics. But what about cyberbullying? In fact, 4.7

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It’s Not Digital Citizenship—It’s Just Citizenship, Period.

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As a classroom teacher and an instructional technologist, I struggled with how to find time in students’ already-busy schedules to incorporate digital citizenship, even though I knew it was important to teach. So I lost the digital. Additionally, the name itself didn’t help my cause.

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How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities

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Here’s an interesting piece from Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jane Sandwood, on the explosion of wearable technology and its place in the education ecosystem: How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. The vast majority of students are inseparable from the technology that they carry with them daily.

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10 Most Popular Tech Tips and Click-throughs in 2015

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Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2015: Top 10 Tech Tips. As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week in 2015, I shared one of those with you. Here are the Top Ten tech tips from 2015.

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