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Essential Guide to Digital Citizenship for CIPA and E-Rate

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What does E-rate have to do with digital citizenship? Through E-rate, your school or library can receive support to purchase communication services and other technological products. What services are eligible to receive discounts under E-rate? What are the educational requirements for compliance? What if I get audited?

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How can we ease tensions around book choice and school libraries?

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My experience with the school library and book choice tension I have over 1,000 books in my American international Christian school classroom in southern Taiwan where I teach English Language Arts (8th), Yearbook (10th-12th), US History (11th), and British Literature (12th). Teachers want to advocate for the learning needs of their students.

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Celebrate National Distance Learning Week Nov. 8-12 with Live, Daily Free Programs for K-12

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In May 2020 demand for online educational courses was up 250% from the previous year. Digital Citizenship: Online Communities By Banyan Global Learning, for Grade K-4. 10: Digital Citizenship: Technology Balance By Banyan Global Learning, for Grades 1-4. Monday, Nov. Tuesday, Nov.

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Wholehearted Libraries, the Game of School, Global Ed, Rescuing Self, Namaste Parenting, and Hack Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dear Friends: 2020 has started and there is a lot of fun learning ahead! LIBRARY SECURITY 2020 | A 90-minute webinar. An extended 90-minute webinar with Q&A, part of a special Library 2.0 Start 2020 with this tool-filled webinar with information and (often entertaining) stories from Steve.

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Teacher Appreciation Week Gifts for the Tech Teacher in Your Life

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Students researched online as often as in the library. Students began spending as much time in the digital neighborhood as their home town. Student work was stored in the cloud and submitted digitally rather than as sheets of paper into the teacher’s Inbox (that really was a box).

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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Globally, edtech spending is predicted to reach $252 Billion by 2020. CIPA requires schools and libraries to install measures to protect children from obscene or harmful content in exchange for discounts offered by the E-rate program. ” In 2000, the FCC created the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).

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Hour of Code: How Students Can Build Their Own Apps

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App Developer is listed as number three on ThinkAdvisor’s list of the best jobs of the future, with a projected growth of 57% through 2020 ( according to the BLS ). TinyTap is a tool for creating interactive games, apps, and books as well as selecting class games from the TinyTap website library.