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Tips and Ideas for Teaching Digital Citizenship in a Hybrid Classroom

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Our classroom environments continue to shift during the pandemic, often with both in-person and remote students learning together. Below you'll find a variety of helpful tips for teaching digital citizenship to both "roomers" and "Zoomers."

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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

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If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. You collected a long list of highly-recommended resources that you can’t wait to try in your classroom. This two-step process doesn’t assure that once I try the program in a real classroom, it’ll perform as promised.

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Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class?

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Have you ever walked into a classroom where students were engaged in serious on-topic discussion, debating ideas and challenging each other to provide evidence of their statements? Chances are, you entered a classroom using a discussion method known as Socratic Debate , aka Socratic Method, Socratic Circle, or Socratic Inquiry.

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Trailblazing the Path to Media Literacy Certification with Micro-credentials

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As co-directors of the Elk Grove Unified School District’s digital citizenship program , Kathleen Watt and I are excited to spread the word about the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED. Are the micro-credential tasks doable for educators who are not actually in the classroom, as we’re both at our district office?

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminar Overview. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word.

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Is technology outpacing you?

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Sure, 73% of teachers use cell phones in their classrooms and 92% say the Internet has a “major impact” on their teaching. If you were in a seminar, it would include the people on both sides of you and in front and back. I’ll wrap up with the current darling of technology-in-education: Google Classroom.

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The Internet Can Be a Force for Good. Here’s How.

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All of this amounts to what is essentially a new frontier in society, and it’s often called “digital citizenship.” Over the summer, EdSurge sat down with one of the foremost experts on this topic: Marialice Curran, founder and executive director of the Digital Citizenship Institute. What is digital citizenship?