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

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Focus on citizenship: Focus your technology-based lessons on teaching your students digital citizenship, or skills that will help them thoughtfully and effectively navigate digital media.[12]. Be sure to introduce your students to Internet safety and elements of digital citizenship as a key focus.

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10 Great PowerPoint Changes You Probably Don’t Know About

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This isn’t new to PowerPoint 2016, but if you haven’t upgraded in a while or simply didn’t know add-ins are available to Microsoft Office, you’ll love these. This includes DropBox, Google Drive, Poll Everywhere, Camtasia, and Adobe Stock. This feature also shows up in Word and Excel 2016. Ink Equations.

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End-of-Year Tips: 18 Steps To A Speedier Computer

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I mean click the free update that’s been nagging at you (Adobe Reader and Windows, for example). She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. don’t look back. Update any software that needs it.

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Looking for Trusted Advisers? Look No Further

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She is an Adobe Education Leader Emeritus, a Google Certified Innovator, an Amazon Teacher Innovator, an Apple Teacher 2016, an Alpha Squirrel, a ThingLink Certified Educator, a MakerBot Curriculum Creator, and a Discovery Education Guru. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning.