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Resource Roundup: Digital Citizenship Lessons & Tips

Waterford

Challenges like: social media, cybercrime, cyberbulling, and more. Because of these challenges, it is important that teachers, school leaders, and parents focus on teaching children how to be upstanding citizens in a digital age. “As Check out the resources below to educate yourself, and your students, on digital citizenship.

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Resource Roundup: Digital Citizenship Lessons & Tips

Waterford

Challenges like: social media, cybercrime, cyberbulling, and more. Because of these challenges, it is important that teachers, school leaders, and parents focus on teaching children how to be upstanding citizens in a digital age. “As Check out the resources below to educate yourself, and your students, on digital citizenship.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Social Media

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The drawbacks of social media are well-documented—like anonymous trolls posting negative comments just to spark controversy. In addition to negative commentary, Knowles acknowledged other challenges to adopting social media for education. Finally, for some there is a social-emotional toll.

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

Waterford

That’s why it’s important for teachers, whether they’re digital immigrants or digital natives themselves, to change the traditional approach to learning. How Digital Natives Process Information in the Classroom. To the typical digital native, learning comes from doing, not from a lecture.[2] Lynch, Matthew.

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How LA Unified Cultivates Districtwide Digital Citizenship

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Not long ago, the term "digital citizenship" connoted cyberbullying, privacy, safety, and security. Much like the term has continued to evolve, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LA Unified) efforts, known as #DigCitLA , have expanded with the growth of digital citizenship awareness.

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Get Started with Digital Citizenship in Your District

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How should an entire district begin teaching digital citizenship? Life Schools Charter School’s digital citizenship initiative began when they started to notice that many students were posting on social media about their location and other personal details. Life Schools started small in the first year.

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169 Real-World Ways to Put Tech into Your Class–NOW

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These will be from my upcoming ebook, 169 Real-World Ways to Put Tech Into Your Class Now (expected publication date: August 2016) where I provide 1) an overview of the tech topics most important to your teaching, and 2) practical strategies to address common classroom tech problems. close, reopen …. There’s lots more.