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To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media

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This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”. They are all into it. Darren Ellwein.

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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

Luckily there are edtech experts who are sharing strategies and tools through blog posts, social media, books, courses and podcasts. Cult of Pedagogy also has a wide-reaching community on social media. She began her popular blog Cool Cat Teacher in 2005, and in 2017 she launched a podcast, 10-Minute Teacher Show.

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Inquiry Hub Secondary School – Confluence and Influence

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Confluence and Influence – Inquiry Hub Secondary School. Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. This year over 2,000 grade 9 students took Digital Learning 10 in Coquitlam. focus on higher-order learning. address Core Competencies. Anthony Ciolfitto.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

Social media has not shown an ability to “self correct” perhaps because by its very nature, the responses can only be positive and thus, there is no self-correcting mechanism built into its algorithm. Below are some of the ads that you may have seen on social media that were released as being traced back to Russian origin.

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Curriculum includes 10 lessons for digital citizenship

eSchool News

ESSDACK, GoEnnounce launch digital citizenship curriculum. ESSDACK has collaborated with GoEnnounce to build an affordable digital citizenship curriculum for secondary students titled Your Digital Footprint. Understanding how to use social media as a positive tool is a goal of this curriculum.”.

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Smartphones in the classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

In my summer digital citizenship classes, the biggest question I get is how to control student cell phone usage. Instead, they would rather stick their heads into their smartphones and stay glued to social media or texting their friends. Shoulders slouched and eyes down—you guessed it right! But it is not their fault.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Teaching with Technology

Graphite Blog

How can digital citizenship lessons help me get the most out of teaching with technology? An established policy or set of guidelines for using apps, including social media -- whether you're considering it as part of your class or just to communicate with students. If so, what are they?