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Class Tech Tips: Teaching Digital Citizenship with Adobe Spark

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Digital citizenship is an essential topic for students to understand. Many schools have adopted digital citizenship curriculums to help introduce students to these concepts. Adobe Spark is a popular suite of creativity tools for students. Connect this feature back to your digital citizenship curriculum.

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5 Easy Photo Skills For Your Class

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One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors has ideas on photo effects that students will be able to quickly master and enjoy using: 5 Fun Photo Effects and Edits to Try Out With Your Class As a teacher, you might have noticed that your students love taking photos and posting them on popular social media platforms.

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

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Communicate with parents through tech: Use digital resources (like apps, texts, or social media groups) to keep parents informed about class activities and upcoming assignments.[10]. Be active: Prioritize active digital activities, like online learning games or interactive lessons, over passive activities, like watching a video.

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A Year to Remember, A Year to Reflect:  Pandemic Instruction

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Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students. Nearpod or Pear Deck, Google Classroom or Canvas, Flipgrid or Adobe Spark? What did one do? Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Tech 101 for Teachers

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I mean click the free update that’s been nagging at you (Adobe Reader for example). If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out. Update any software that needs it. I don’t mean BUY a newer version.

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End-of-Year Maintenance: 16 Steps To A Speedier Computer

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I mean click the free update that’s been nagging at you (Adobe Reader for example). If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily. Here’s what you do: go to Control Panel>Programs and Features (this is different on Windows 10–just search “Control Panel”).

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End-of-Year Maintenance: 19 Steps To A Speedier Computer

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This week, I’m sharing three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. I mean click the free update that’s been nagging at you (Adobe Reader for example). If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily.