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

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Since 2011 Banned Books Week has included a day to recognize banned websites. If we block it, we have no chance to educate them on it. How can we have an impact on developing digital citizenship skills?”. Several educators echo Yates’ comments. If we block it, we have no chance to educate them on it,” he continues.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

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We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They worked together as a Personal Learning Network.

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Learn to Blend Tech into Your Class; Get College Credit

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In this course, teachers will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, critical thinking, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

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Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Lots of questions, often directed to each other–for clarification, personal experience, or simple collegiality. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand.

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15 Take-aways from Online Grad School Classes

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How to embed materials into digital portfolios. How to create a vibrant, healthy Personal Learning Network. Lots (and lots) of schools are not 1:1, making do with shared carts of digital devices. As educators, we need to remember this. How to work tech tools into their unique student groups.

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Last Chance to Join Tech-infused Class

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This course is designed for educators who: Are serious about integrating tech into their class. Your Personal Learning Network. 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. Who Needs This.

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5 Ideas for Keeping Students at the Center of Learning #tltechlive

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They explored important issues in education and shared these ideas for ensuring that students remain at the center of our work: 1 Align learning to student preferences. How are you designing opportunities that reflect how students learn best? 5 Involve students in all aspects of their education.